Le bois de laurier ou la dissimulation du sacré
The Crown of Laurels or Hiding the Sacred

Summary/Abstract: Jean-Jacques Wunenburger has writen a vast work. Its vastness yields to one essential enquiry best encapsulated in the title of one of his books: Philosophie des images. In spite of this, the complexity of the notion of the image itself prompts us to ask ourselves whether Wunenburger’s work privileges a certain type of imaginary. In this respect, the notion of the “sacred” holds a recurrent and hence problematical position. Whereas dominant in his first three books, it features less prominently in later works, somewhat disseminating itself, and taking a back seat. This enquiry sets out to demonstrate that the epiphany of the sacred gravitates around the symbolical image. The hermeneutic of the symbol engenders a logic of the interpretive desire that can be conjugated ad infinitum. At the same time, the author never ceases to denounce all contemporary hysterias which defile sacredness, especially by way of the horizontal projection of utopias or of the invasion of the televisual. As to the exact articulations of the sacred and the religious, they form the object of future enquiry.

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