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Lettera internazionale 92 (2007)
92 (2007)
La violenza e la morte [Violence and death]
Afghanistan in fiamme
Afghanistan in flames
Gli stivali del delirio
The delirious boots. A short story about the Soviet Army invading Afghanistan
Bare di zinco
Coffins of zinc. Witnesses of the Soviet War in Afghanistan tell of their own experiences
Il futuro del pianeta
The future of the earth
Nacita dell'idea di moneta
The birth of the notion of money. Money as a social fact, its value depending on our trust in it
Contro l'idolatria del mercato
Against the idolatry of the market. Economic development as a new religion tending to "instrumentalize" men and nature
Il mito dello sviluppo economico
The myth of economic development. The economic process obeys the rules of thermodynamics: it involves the transformation of valuable natural resources (low entropy) into discardables (high entropy)
Che cos'è lo sviluppo sostenibile
What does "sustainable development" mean? Sustainability seen as physical throughput, i.e., the capacity of the ecosystem to sustain flows while keeping natural capital intact
Per un umanesimo dell'economia
Humanism of the economy. An economist thinks over the necessity to find a stationary state, that is to say a state of social and moral balance in a dynamic society
Per un vero socialismo
For a true socialism
Perché i socialisti non sono felici
Can Socialists be happy? Socialists aim at the brotherhood of people, while happiness is just a by-product
Orwell e il socialismo
Orwell and socialism. Orwell believed that only the defeat of totalitarianism could grant socialism its own success
La violenza e la morte
Violence and death
Per una fenomenologia della violenza
Phenomenology of violence. Human history includes violence, so we need to establish the threshold of what is intolerable and "inhuman": it is a problem of top priority in the political agenda at all levels
Ira e stupore
Anger and amazement. A Jewish writer remembers the amazement of people in Weimar when they realized the horrors of the Shoah
Il genocidio degli armeni
The Armenian genocide. The American Ambassador in Turkey during the First World War discusses Turkish atrocities against the Armenians
Vento divino: i kamikaze e il culto della morte nel Giappone imperiale
Holy wind: Kamikazes and the cult of death in imperial Japan. Media see terrorist suicide attacks of September 11 as kamikaze attacks. As a matter of fact, the word "kamikaze", meaning sacrificial death imposed by the State, refers to a unique tragedy in the history of Japan
Il suicidio nel mondo antico
Suicide in the ancient world. A short analysis of the notion of suicide through mythology, philosophy, and religion
Memoria della Terra: storia dei suicidi di massa di Okinawa
Memory of Earth: Mass suicides in Okinawa. The "return of the dead" from Okinawa bloodshed in the autobiographical narration of a Japanese teacher
Breve storia dell'eutanasia
A short history of euthanasia. The culture of euthanasia is deep-rooted in Western history and philosophy. We need to look back at this tradition to rediscover ourselves
I mostri della porta accanto
When your neighbour is a "monster". A psychological analysis of a killer couple
Il delitto perfetto
The perfect murder. The great writer analyzes the kind of murder English readers like the most
La religione e il potere
Religion and power
Le catene della religione
The chains of religion. The relativism of philosopher Giordano Bruno against "the truth" of the Roman Catholic Church
Il fascismo e l'islam. La divinizzazione del dittatore
Fascism and Islam. Deification of the dictator. Integralism has brought Arabian countries to establish fascist regimes and conceive of their own leaders as divine personifications
I libri
Books