The meeting

How he reveals us to ourselves and opens us up I was afraid to start because I only saw myself in relation to the world, except myself and my responsibilities, and my anxiety... and I forgot that the essential can come from outside myself, and I forgot that relational nature is the true nature that characterizes humans... and I forgot that I am not lacking skill or capable qualities, nor even courage... and what I simply lack is you. You, that being who is not me, but without whom I cannot realize my self. I wrote this book to show that it is possible to make chance our ally, and that it is possible to prepare to receive the unexpected. (Charles Péguy) Charles Péguy's book about encounter, which is in our hands, is characterized by excitement and simplicity of presentation and abundant illustrative examples of the topic discussed. This is because he is a professional philosophy teacher at the end of high school, bringing his research topics closer to the minds of his students, in a significant departure from the complexity of abstract philosophical presentations. What increases his ability to present in an engaging way is that he is a novelist, having written several widely circulated novels, which gave the text presented in this book a near existential narrative touch that is accessible and far from theorizing. Number of pages: 237 Year of publication: 2022 Publisher: Arab Cultural Center