In a period which radically challenged the grounds and the value of politics, this book engages in a reflection of its deepest sense.
Indeed, what is really politics? We speak about it every day, we are almost completely determined by it, but we are not able to characterize its nature. We often feel politics as something strange, which simply “happens” around us, something we should defend ourselves against – since our real values are different: family, success in job, personal improvement, wealth, friendship, a body to be satisfied and, at least for someone, faith. If therefore politics is not actively performed but suffered, one is rightly asked some questions about it: what does it mean to act politically? What is the role of power in politics? And the role of passions? And what about the recognition? And the holy? And the State? Finally, what is the role of the sense of life, and of the public sphere? The are the issues dealt with by this provocative book, which raises problematic thoughts more than offering definitive answers. |
