“Syria”
A quick overview of my understanding of events in Syria. Clear winners: the array of radical Sunni groups in Syria…
Category: THINKING POLITICALLY
Italy, 1953: A Sexual Political Delusion
“How the ‘True World’ finally became a fiction” F. Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols 1. The less credible a fiction…
A Fundamental Contradiction of the Western Camp
Today many accuse Western leaderships of having been blind with regard to Putin, of not having realised his aims far…
Xenophobia: Is It Something Morbid? The Sick Reasons
The Sick Reasons Not long ago, on a train, I met an American who had lived in Italy for sixteen…
THE VIRUS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS. DIARY FROM THE QUARANTINE
Politicians, philosophers, moral thinkers and journalists in Italy are repeating the same concept: “This epidemic will be an opportunity to…
Hestiation. Our Life After Coronavirus
1. For some time I’d been meditating to sketch a text of a prophetic nature on the way we will…
Happiness for the Dismal Science
1. It is striking that economists today play the leading role in interdisciplinary studies on happiness. In the 20th…
THE WORLD OF TRUMP PEOPLE (Written Before the Presidential Elections) [Winner ot the Treccani Web Prize]
1. Some people say that Donald Trump, both as a personality and as regards his political positions, is nothing really…
Ethics, Wonder and the Real in Wittgenstein*
Wittgenstein explicitly addressed ethics above all in his first stage of thought—in the Tractatus, in his Notebooks of 1914-16, and in his Lecture on…
Book Review of Georg Simmel’s “Fashion”
1. In the 20th century, much was written on fashion, yet systematic, general theories on fashion are few. The best…