J. M. G. Le Clézio and Gérard Gouesbet’s Cosmic, Ecocentric Framework for Understanding the Nature of Human Violence
ORCID
Moser: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3824-1021
MSU Affiliation
College of Arts and Sciences; Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
Creation Date
2026-06-01
Abstract
This study investigates the highly original theories about the origins of human violence developed by the physicist Gérard Gouesbet and the Franco-Mauritian writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. Both authors pinpoint the indifferent, cosmic forces that conceived all life as the hidden source of human aggression. In Violences de la nature and Terra Amata, Gouesbet and Le Clézio assert that the very act of existence itself is a violent struggle for survival. Although this biological parasitism is unavoidable due to the universal principles that govern life, both writers urge global society to deviate from its current path. In their biocentric reflections related to the absurdity of the human condition, Gouesbet and Le Clézio contend that we must find a way to end this ‘world war’ and to limit our incessant acts of aggression against the remainder of the cosmos.
Publication Date
7-30-2019
Publication Title
French Cultural Studies
Publisher
SAGE Publications
First Page
232
Last Page
247
Rights
© The Author(s) 2019
Recommended Citation
Moser, K. (2019). J. M. G. Le Clézio and Gérard Gouesbet’s cosmic, ecocentric framework for understanding the nature of human violence. French Cultural Studies, 30(3), 232-247.
