A few words on Michaël Fœssel's 'Le Temps de la Consolation'(Seuil, 2015)
It's been a long time since Seneca and Boethius, among many others, gave consolation a philosophical good name. One of the main features of the modern age has been to gradually lose faith in traditional consolation, preferring lucidity to what has come to be seen as therapy not worthy of serious reflection. This book provides a critique of modernity …