If there's one deceptively lazy and genuinely joyful way of doing philosophy, it's by reading Tintin! From the Earth to the Moon, from the Middle Kingdom to the ‘roof of the world’, the reporter and his canine partner cross the albums, accompanied by a scientist as deaf as a pumpkin and a captain with unforgettable swear words. Welcome to the world of Hergé, a world where Good always triumphs over Evil, where the Other - forget the prejudices of the first albums - is looked upon with benevolence, where Western naturalism gently wavers under the action of the breath of animism or totemism, and where Laughter is not humiliating.
But there's more to this universe, and, surprise, we were expecting philosophers to enlighten us about Tintin, and it's just as much them that Tintin comes to enlighten: underneath the ‘clear line’, clear ideas.
127 pages - hardcover - French