Debate 'On the right to beauty', with Édouard Louis and Zadie Smith

Writers Zadie Smith and Édouard Louis will discuss the ambivalence of beauty, the promises it embodies and the tensions it provokes. Is beauty a shared experience or an unequally distributed privilege? Who has a right to it? Can art and literature, in their search for beauty, help us imagine other forms of attention and recognition of the other? The literature of Zadie Smith and Édouard Louis opens a space to think about the tensions and possibilities of the idea…