Anthropology of the contemporary

Eight lay mystics who seek the divine outside the strictly religious framework are the protagonists of this book: free and courageous women who want to go beyond the idea of God that is proposed to them.

“God is not like that, I am sure, and so I seek him on my own,” says Catherine Pozzi, and like her Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Adrienne von Speyr, Banine, Elisabeth Behr Sigel, Romana Guarnieri, up to Simone Weil and Chiara Lubich. In this quest nourished by awareness they founded movements, worked in factories, loved without holding back, exercised a profession. 

Is it possible to overcome the traditional myth of love without denying yourself the pleasure of losing your head over someone? Perhaps yes, provided one understands what to do if one is in love in the post-romantic era. Love has changed because the therapeutic culture, the legal institution of divorce, the struggles of the LGBTQIA + movements have expanded the morphology of love relationships. The love relationship is not just one. Not any more. Realising a love, that is, does not necessarily mean getting married, having children, having sex or living under the same roof for a long time.

Their bodies make no shadow, their existence does not extend beyond the edges of screens. They have no genetic make-up and feed exclusively on electricity and internet connection. It is difficult to distinguish them from human influencers, not least because they behave in exactly the same way. Virtual influencers: where the digital pupil surpasses the real master.

And on social networks they now number in the hundreds.

Contemporary tattoos practices have not, so far, been the subject of much philosophical investigation. Philosophers – apart from a few sporadic publications that have handled the topic of tattoos mostly from the point of view of aesthetics – have not yet shown a general interest in those indelible marks on the skin, frequently born in marginal contexts and often polemical towards the social order.

The virtual universe, which seems to overwhelm the foundations of our world, comes from afar. Its earliest roots are probably concealed in a Pauline passage full of mystery, in which the advent of the mysterium iniquitatis is announced under the guise of the double, of the one who performs striking mirabilia to accredit himself as the Messiah, as the true Lord, while nothing else is but a false idol and perhaps the devil himself.

«Tasty and savory: what this strange expression that connects-and at the same time separates-two practically synonymous terms is supposed to mean? To what does the title of this book allude? To what ambivalence does it refer?... What does discourse, a linguistic term, have to do with gastronomy, the stuff of amateur cooks, expert charcutiers, and restaurant critics?»

With Tasty and Savory Gianfranco Marrone lays the foundation for the semiotics of food that he has developed in recent years through field research and methodical theorization.

Information on sexual abuses carried out by the Catholic clergy in Italy is scarce. In the absence of independent investigations and trustworthy journalistic inquiries, once can only rely on the information provided by the website of the no-profit organization ‘Rete L’Abuso’. The organization, founded and chaired by Francesco Zanardi, who was himself a victim of abuse, gathers and collects a multitude of materials on the subject, albeit in a rather chaotic manner.

A collection of reflections and contributions on different issues and authors: the history of death, the First of May festivity, forms and victims of intolerance, the Manzonian "plague." They are minor fruits of a vocation for the study of history that animated the generation of those born under Fascism and raised after World War II, driven to the study of history by a desire for redemption and social justice learned from the protagonists of resistance to fascism such as Antonio Gramsci and Marc Bloch.