Apology in Honor of Franco Ferrarotti

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
Author/s Mario Aldo Toscano
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2012/99
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 127-140 File size 630 KB
DOI 10.3280/SR2012-099007
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Starting from one of Franco Ferrarotti’s latest publications Atman. Il respiro del bosco (Ed. Empiria, Rome, 2012), this essay develops on the basis of the considerations in the last sections of the text, to which we refer. The interpretation key to this note, purposefully hermeneutic though unveiled in its conclusions, relates to the return to nature. The transition from culture to nature and to the nature of the trees is not seen, in the long trajectory described by Franco Ferrarotti, as a «regression», but rather as the achievement of a wisdom able to contemplate sine ira ac studio (without anger or concern) the enormous shortfallings and decline of the public and private life in our country. The solitude of the «naturalized» thought brings a glimpse of hope, in that memory resumes its course no more towards the past but towards the future. Ferrarotti’s "lessons» interpret the dramatic sequences of our history, remain in the atmospheres of thought, and are «received» as such, fertile sources of underground action.

Mario Aldo Toscano, Apologo. In onore di Franco Ferrarotti in "SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE " 99/2012, pp 127-140, DOI: 10.3280/SR2012-099007