Refuser de pardonner, vengeance, résilience… la vérité qui dérange - Laurence Devillairs

Laurence Devillairs is one of the leading voices in contemporary French philosophy. A specialist in Descartes and Pascal, and author of The Splendor of the World and Healing Life Through Philosophy*, she returns with a book of a different tone: *Vengeance: The Right Not to Forgive (Stock). In this episode of *Powerful Brain*, she speaks frankly about what happens when one suffers a grave injustice—how the offense separates you from yourself, how the victim becomes a hunted and ultimately nullified puppet, and why resilience, elevated to the status of an imperative, can finish what the aggressor began. She defends a counterintuitive thesis: the desire for revenge is neither hatred nor violence. It is a desire for intelligence, for justice, for a return to oneself. This is what allows one to say: the only guilty parties are the guilty, and not me. Throughout the conversation, she discusses: why philosophy is not a consolation, but a light the difference between hatred (which keeps you imprisoned) and revenge (which liberates) the critique of the society of forgiveness and restorative justice what she calls the damnation of memory—exiling the offender from one's world why writing this book didn't heal her, but set her free A serious, insightful, and uncompromising conversation. For those who have long believed that forgiveness is necessary to move forward. 📖 Revenge, the Right Not to Forgive, Laurence Devillairs, Stock Publishers. 🔔 To stay up-to-date, subscribe to this podcast, and also find us on our website (where you can subscribe to our weekly newsletter) and on our social media channels, Instagram and YouTube. Instagram:   / cerveaupuissant   Ausha: https://podcast.ausha.co/cerveau-puis...