2014 Programme
Event #3
Roberto Esposito
Growing Up Is Hard
There are stages and phases in the growth process that mark a change in status in the life of each individual, which society believes to be of the essence. This is why such events are dramatized in the form of rites and become important group experiences. The most widespread rites are linked to the coming of age that every society, according to its parameters, identifies as being “adult”, and such rites are often connected to tests of strength or courage. As time passes such rites of passage have become rarer or at least rarefied; they no longer mark a true break in an individual’s existential path. There is an increasing amount of complicity and resemblance between parents and their children when it comes to clothing, behaviour, the sharing of new technologies. Owing to this continuity young people risk being less independent from adults.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/Roberto Esposito teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. He collaborates with la Repubblica. He wrote Communitas. Origine e destino della comunità (published by Einaudi in 1998) a book about community translated in several languages, as well as his other book including: Immunitas (2002), Bios (2004), Terza persona (2007), Pensiero vivente (2010), Due (2013), Da fuori. Una filosofia per l’Europa (2016), Politica e negazione (2018), all published by Einaudi. His latest book Termini della politica (Mimesis) will be published at the end of September 2018.
Event #20
Paolo Cornaglia Ferraris, Marcello Massimini
The Secret of the Consciousness and its Measurement
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