Giovanni Scarafile, Yen-Yi Lee Nor did I think your edict had such force / that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods,/ the great unwritten, unshakable traditions”. (Sophocles, Antigone, ll. 453–455, tr. R. Fagles). With these words, Antigone addresses … Continua a leggere Rethinking Dialogue: From Antigone’s Truth-Telling to Confucius’ Relational Humanity
There are moments when language itself seems to break. Faced with images of children pulled from the rubble, of cities reduced to concrete skeletons, of lives erased with the cold precision of a statistic, we discover that the words we … Continua a leggere The Grammar of Murder and the Morality of Dialogue
The article explores the concept of liminality, illustrating how transitional moments in life shape identity and experience. Traditional societies embraced communal rituals to navigate these thresholds, unlike modern ceremonies that lack transformative power. This shift highlights a struggle between seeking intense experiences and the inability to genuinely confront pivotal life changes, embodying existential tension central to humanity. Continua a leggere Inverted Proteus: liminality and anthropological impoverishment in the crisis of modern identity
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