The words of Jacques,
who was Oscar.

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Camatte’s texts are dense, not imme­diately accessible. In the final phase of his life the thinker was aware of this and attempted to offer a guide to those wishing to approach his work. The tools he left us are essentially three: the Index page of his website, an extreme and deliberate synthesis of his thought; the Glossary, elaborated over years until the very end; and a series of seven conversations-interviews, ranging from autobiographical accounts — valuable as historical documents — to lessons to disciples and Platonic dialogues, notable for the strong affective quality of their register. These texts, audio recordings, and in one case a video, constitute the most direct path to a way of thinking that he defines in these very conversations as "théorie est charnelle".

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