Luigi Carotenuto (luigicarotenuto@live.it) Federico Sollazzo, between totalitarianism and democracy: the civil service ethics , Tesionline, Arcore (MI) 2009
To begin the essay by Federico Sollazzo, I am reminded of a statement by the director Robert Bresson, on the occasion of his penultimate film, perhaps the most extreme Le diable probablement : "He pushed me to make this film the waste that we do everything in this mass civilization where soon the individual will no longer exist. This huge undertaking demolition, where we will perish if we believed to live, you should also incredible indifference to all except the youth of today some of the most lucid. " It was 1977 and the hero of that film, a young man, moved his indictment on a society already deeply influenced by new technology and the socio-political superstructure.
Today, Federico Sollazzo, we propose a highly polished essay, perhaps moved, even unconsciously, for reasons similar to those of the famous filmmaker, of course with the confidence of those who believe in the philosophy not only as a mere tool probing, speculative but as a means to implement tangible and profound social change. Although, "The world has never heard its philosophers, their lamentations," Bauman ADJUDGED, and elsewhere states that 'there are no local solutions to global problems. " In this work, Sollazzo takes the threads of a tight, hot dialogue between ancient and modern thinkers, the leitmotif logos, mistreated, exploited, often used only for man-lust for power (as noted by Jonas quoting Sophocles' Antigone "Life has many tremendous forces, and yet nothing more than man, you see, is tremendous," p. 115). A text (specifically, the PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Human Sciences "), which, as the author points out in the introduction, stems from preliminary research on the concept of totalitarianism, been growing as the magma was opened to other conceptual considerations, however, addressed to all human destiny. Moving in the first part, mainly by considerations of Arendt and the exponents of the Frankfurt School, the text focuses (and is one of the most interesting) on \u200b\u200bthe crisis of individual reason produced by totalitarian governments that leads up to the tragic Nazi genocide. In any totalitarian state, always supported by ideologies enslaved to the system and created just the same, there comes a process of dehumanization and "desublimation" of art, language objectifies and is gradually taking shape that 'man one-dimensional "described by Marcuse in which even" the word becomes a cliché "(p. 44). Main defense shield thought ("The thinking is in itself a sign of strength which indicates the commitment not to be the most deceiving," Horkheimer, p. 47); disturbing questions, such as, for our contemporaries, find it again in a scheme assolutizzante, tyrannical, in addition to the formal vision of the risks involved in democracy, often as a mask that oligarchic system, for there is no guarantee of fairness where political apathy "induced" is a way unscathed . In fact, the city is "educated" to use their vote only as a bargaining chip, the logic of tit for tat already reported in the nineteenth century by Tocqueville (p. 78). Sollazzo insists, this comes as a critical levee, on a practical philosophy and a reconciliation of ethos and logos (p. 83), since, as argued by Habermas, more and more private life is advertised as the public sphere becomes intimate, segregation (and in this connection is cited the beautiful book of Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power , p. 79). In addition, the holders of cultural sites, such as universities, museums, theaters, they should raise their voice, sounding board, ethical and civil consciousness is lost when the collective self-consciousness, for escape to the industrial culture that negates all powers of imagination and stiffens lifestyles (p. 88).
The author, finally, after taking into consideration the concepts of totalitarianism, democracy and the various possible ethical public, in the last chapter considers, without concessions utopian illusions, the prospects of a possible social peace. Here part of the "know thyself" Socratic to emphasize that modern man and contemporary is the focal point is not to reduce the issues previously discussed in banal simplifications. You must include all the problematic of human life today and from here onwards for a decisive attitude that takes into account But in any context (and even of every man, as pointed out by Sollazzo at the conclusion of his work, p. 157) and began in earnest a process of exchange between different cultures, with mutual respect to their peculiarities that make them unique and at the same time universal.
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