“Hope means losing one’s illusions”: a conversation between Cécile Renouard and Corine Pelluchon
Philosopher, professor at Gustave-Eiffel University
Religious of the Assumption, philosopher, teacher at Essec and president of the Campus de la Transition
Collected by Marie Dancer (La Croix) and Juliette Quef (Vert)
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Cécile Renouard and Corine Pelluchon shed light on the relationship between ecological and spiritual issues. (Illustration photo) Pascal Deloche/Godong / stock.adobe.com
Invited by La Croix and Vert le média to speak at the Climate Academy on May 21, Cécile Renouard and Corine Pelluchon shed fascinating light on the scale of the crisis we are experiencing and the relationship between ecological and spiritual issues. They chart a path between commitment and hope.
Juliette Quef: Corine, what is your definition of spirituality? Can there be a spiritual vision of ecology?
Corine Pelluchon: I want to turn the title you gave to this evening on its head, "Spiritualities, a new impetus for ecology?" I would say that ecology can be a new impetus for self-transformation, and even for spirituality. So what is spirituality? I would define it as something that is linked to existence, to experience. It is the relationship to the immeasurable, to that which surpasses me or is larger than myself, larger than my individual life, and than what is around me.
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