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[The beauty of the vulnerable]
1Chaire de philosophie à l'hôpital, GHU Paris, Psychiatrie et neuroscience, 1 rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris, France.
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This article explores the paradox between beauty and vulnerability, analyzing how our aesthetic judgments, influenced by cultural and physiological norms, reject fragility while exalting perfection. Through a variety of artistic examples, from Rembrandt to Japanese kintsugi, he shows how vulnerability can be sublimated and integrated into the field of the beautiful. By redefining beauty as a recognition of finitude, he proposes an inclusive aesthetic that values flaws and imperfections as sources of resilience and creativity.
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