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London
Book
Fair
2014
Rights
List
Editori
Laterza
Authors
Luciano
Canfora
Fedrico
Rampini
Luciano
Gallino
Remo
Bodei
Emilio
Gentile
Marco
Politi
Massimiliano
Papini
Ernesto
Assante
Luigi
Castaldo
Salavtore
Veca
Andrea
Baranes
Cesarina
Casanova
Mario
Infelise
Paolo
Grillo
Paolo
Santangelo
Veronica
Pravedelli
Chiara
Alessi
Daniela
De
Pesco
Andrew
Hopkins
Daniele
Biacchessi
Luciano
Canfora
LUCIANO
CANFORA
teaches
Classical
Philology
at
the
University
of
Bari.
He
edits
the
Quaderni
di
Storia
series
and
writes
for
daily
newspaper
il
Corriere
della
Sera.
His
works
published
by
Laterza,
which
have
been
widely
translated
all
around
the
world,
include:
History
of
Greek
Literature;
Books
and
Freedom;
Julius
Caesar.
The
democratic
dictator;
Masterclass
on
Greek
Literature;
Critique
of
Democratic
Rhetoric;
Democracy.
History
of
an
ideology;
The
First
March
on
Rome;
The
Papyrus
of
Artemidoros;
The
Nature
of
Power;
The
World
of
Athens;
“Europe
Has
Asked
Us
To!”:
False!;
Interview
on
Power
(edited
by
A.
Carioti).
This
book
has
as
its
centrepiece
a
comedy
by
Aristophanes,
the
comic
playwright
of
ancient
Athens
who
perhaps
more
than
any
other
has
resisted
facile
interpretation
and
party-‐political
categorization.
The
comedy
Assemblywomen
lampoons
a
radical
plan
to
reform
society
that
finds
surprisingly
clear
echoes
in
the
most
audacious
pages
of
Plato’s
Republic…
THE
CRISIS
OF
UTOPIA
Aristophanes
vs
Plato
pp.
440
I
Robinson/Letture
Published
Do
failures
shatter
utopia
or
is
it
a
moral
imperative
that
remains
intact
beyond
the
shipwreck?
And
does
the
all
too
easy
demonization
of
utopia
not
risk
becoming
a
pretext
for
the
eternal
reinforcement
of
conservatism
and
injustice?
Other
titles
by
the
same
author
In
the
comedy
Assemblywomen
(circa
380
BC)
Aristophanes
pillories
the
notion
of
a
communist
utopia.
Disguised
as
men,
the
women
of
Athens
succeed
in
The
World
of
Athens
sold
to:
Anagrama
(Spanish)
–
convincing
the
assembly
to
vote
in
favour
of
sharing
all
their
goods.
This
extends
Companhia
das
Lettras
to
the
women
themselves
and,
surprisingly
enough,
the
men
as
well,
in
order
not
(Portuguese)
to
discriminate
against
ugly
women!
The
result
is
a
ridiculous
situation
in
which
a
handsome
boy
finds
himself
obliged
by
law
to
first
sleep
with
three
ugly
women
The
Nature
of
Power
sold
to:
Les
Belles
Lettres
(French)
–
before
he
can
go
to
his
beloved.
Capitan
Swing
(Spanish)
Canfora
takes
the
comedy
as
a
starting
point
to
analyze
a
paradigmatic
conflict
concerning
utopia:
that
between
Aristophanes’s
comedy
and
Plato’s
philosophy.
Critique
of
Democratic
Rhetoric
The
former
ridicules
the
idea
that
riches
and
sexual
relations
can
be
shared;
the
sold
to:
Critica
(Spanish)
–
latter
makes
utopia
the
subject
of
one
of
his
most
famous
dialogues
in
The
Liberdade
(Portuguese)
–
Flammarion
(French)
–
Republic.
Methaichmio
(Greek)
–
In
time
the
controversy
surrounding
utopia
will
become
a
defining
theme
in
the
Idea
(Romanian)
–
history
of
the
West.
Thinkers
and
writers
of
every
persuasion
–
Aristotle,
Dost
(Turkish)
Tommaso
Campanella,
Jonathan
Swift,
Friedrich
Engels
–
will
devote
themselves
to
imagining
more
equitable
and
fortunate
worlds
or
to
harshly
criticizing
utopia,
“Europe
wants
us
to
do
that”
FALSE!
sold
to:
considering
it
illusory
or
worse,
a
mystification
of
reality.
Capitan
Swing
(Spanish)
What
then
is
utopia?
Is
it
truly
the
projection
of
an
impossible
world?
And
must
we
consider
utopian
those
who
insist
on
believing
in
the
possibility
of
radical
change?
“The
new
series
I
Libra
offers
the
best
of
Italian
nonfiction
on
the
most
controversial
issues
of
the
day.”
Federico
Rampini
FEDERICO
RAMPINI,
columnist
and
correspondent
for
la
Repubblica,
in
addition
to
essayist,
was
born
in
Genoa
in
1956.
He
has
lived
in
Paris,
Brussels,
Rome,
Milan
and
San
Francisco.
As
a
correspondent
he
reported
on
events
in
Silicon
Valley
before
leaving
the
United
States
for
Beijing,
where
he
opened
the
newspaper's
China
bureau.
He
taught
at
the
University
of
California,
Berkeley,
and
the
Shanghai
University
of
Finance
and
Economics.
In
2009
he
returned
to
the
United
States,
in
New
York,
as
a
correspondent
for
la
Repubblica.
With
Mondadori
he
published:
The
Chinese
Century
(2005);
The
Chindia
Empire
(2006);
Mao's
Shadow
(2007);
The
Indian
Hope
(2008),
Slow
Economy
(2009);
Far
East
(2010)
and
To
My
Left
(2011).
In
2005
he
won
the
Luigi
Barzini
Prize
for
journalism
and
in
2006
the
Saint-‐Vincent
Prize.
With
Laterza
he
published:
New
Economy.
A
revolution
underway
(2000);
From
Euphoria
to
Collapse.
The
second
life
of
the
New
Economy
(new
edition
2002);
San
Francisco-‐Milan.
An
Italian
in
the
other
America
(n.e
2011);
We
Can
no
longer
afford
the
Social
State”
FALSE!
(2012).
The
Austerity
Trap
Why
the
ideology
of
rigour
blocks
the
recovery
pp.144
I
Libra
Published
The
tragic
error
of
austerity
will
be
a
decisive
factor
in
burning
an
entire
generation
of
young
Europeans,
their
aspirations
and
their
potential.
What
is
this
world
in
which
we
live?
It
is
a
wide,
divergent
world,
with
Europeans
unfortunately
in
the
wrong
half.
In
America
the
Great
Contraction
is
over.
In
Europe
the
crisis
continues,
because
this
is
what
is
demanded
by
the
erroneous
policies
imposed
in
the
name
of
austerity.
Drawing
strength
from
its
economic
superiority,
Germany
has
convinced
itself
of
its
moral
superiority
as
well.
Its
ethical
vision
of
the
virtues
of
thrift
has
become
a
passport
for
imposing
disastrous
policies
on
the
rest
of
Europe
that
are
prolonging
the
recession.
America
has
avoided
precisely
these
errors:
breaking
free
of
neoliberal
absolutism
is
the
necessary
first
step
to
begin
repairing
this
enormous
social
disaster.
Obama
has
given
new
relevance
to
John
Maynard
Keynes’s
lesson,
the
only
non-‐authoritarian
strong
theory
to
come
out
of
the
1930s
–
growth
first,
at
any
cost.
The
economy
can
only
start
to
grow
again
if
purchasing
power
is
distributed
among
the
most
populous
classes,
the
working
classes
and
the
middle
classes,
whose
suffering
testifies
to
a
historic
failure.
Luciano
Gallino
LUCIANO
GALLINO
is
professor
emeritus
at
the
University
of
Turin.
He
has
written
extensively
on
the
transformations
of
labour
and
productive
processes
in
the
era
of
globalization.
With
Einaudi
he
has
published
several
works,
including:
If
Three
Million
Seem
Like
A
Few
(1998);
The
Disappearance
of
Industrial
Italy
(2003);
Irresponsible
Business
(2005);
Technology
and
Democracy
(2007);
With
Other
People’s
Money
(2010);
Finance-‐capitalism
(2011).
The
new
series
I
Libra
offers
the
best
of
Italian
nonfiction.
The
authors
are
well
known
to
the
public
at
large
and
the
issues
discussed
are
among
the
most
controversial
of
the
day.
The
series
features
highly
readable
texts
enriched
by
data
presented
in
graphs
and
tables.
Each
volume
is
approximately
144
pages
long
with
16mo
colour
illustrations,
13x20.
Lives
On
Hold
The
scandal
of
precarious
work
pp.144
I
Libra
Published
An
increase
in
employment
and
a
community
of
workers
with
broadly
comparable
wages,
continuity
of
work,
and
knowledge:
these
were
the
miraculous
effects
promised
by
flexible
working
arrangements
that
from
the
1980s
onwards
served
to
justify
the
gradual
dismantling
of
safeguards
for
workers.
As
empirical
research
shows
today
the
reality
could
not
be
more
different
or
less
dispiriting.
Profound
social
and
Other
titles
by
the
same
author
economic
inequalities
exist
between
permanent
and
precarious
workers,
carrying
inevitable
personal
and
social
costs.
Fixed-‐term
The
class
struggle
after
the
class
contracts,
apparently
continuous
but
in
reality
discontinuous
collaborations,
struggle
sold
to:
Fototapeta
(German)
–
working
arrangements
that
are
intermittent,
occasional,
off
the
books,
all
Theoria/Cavalo
de
Ferro
constitute
an
open
wound
in
society
and
source
of
unnecessary
stress,
as
well
as
a
(Portuguese)
diminution
of
citizens’
rights.
The
term
“precariousness”
does
not
merely
define
the
nature
of
each
and
every
atypical
contact,
but
also
the
social
and
human
Globalization
and
inequalities
consequences
and
the
probability
of
never
being
able
to
elude
this
existential
sold
to:
Dost
Kitabevi
(Turkish)
–
Oceano
state.
Precariousness
implies
both
objective
and
subjective
uncertainty
which,
(Spanish)
starting
from
working
conditions
rapidly
becomes
insecurity
of
living
conditions,
since
work,
and
with
it
income,
can
be
revoked
at
the
discretion
of
the
employers
and
businesses
that
granted
them.
Precarious
work
has
turned
back
the
clock
of
employment
and
living
conditions
of
workers
by
generations.
Remo
Bodei
REMO
BODEI
is
professor
of
Philosophy
at
the
University
of
California,
Los
Angeles,
prior
to
which
he
taught
for
many
years
at
the
Scuola
Normale
Superiore
and
the
University
of
Pisa.
His
most
recent
works,
which
have
been
widely
translated,
include:
with
Mulino,
Ordo
amoris
(1991),
The
Forms
of
Beauty
(1995),
Pyramids
of
Time.
The
history
and
theory
of
déjà
vu
(2006),
Anger.
The
furious
passion
(2011);
with
Feltrinelli,
Geometry
of
Passions
(1991),
Personal
Destinies.
The
age
of
the
colonization
of
minds
(2002);
with
Donzelli,
Philosophy
in
the
Twentieth
Century
(1997),
Doctor
Freud
and
the
Soul’s
Nerves
(2001);
with
Zanichelli,
A
Spark
of
Fire.
Invitation
to
Philosophy
(2005);
with
Bompiani,
Sublime
Landscapes
(2008).
With
Laterza
he
published
The
Logic
of
Delirium
(20023)
and
The
Life
of
Objects
(20126).
GENERATIONS
The
age
of
life,
the
age
of
objects
pp.
112
I
Robinson/Letture
Published
Can
the
pride
of
giving
back
more
than
one
has
received
be
taught?
Will
it
be
possible
to
introduce
a
new
intergenerational
pact,
especially
in
view
of
the
further
shortage
of
young
people
forecast
in
the
next
two
decades?
How
will
relations
between
the
generations
alter
the
way
in
which
reality
is
perceived
and
interpreted?
Every
generation
shares
the
destiny
of
its
time
and
projects
itself
into
the
future
by
generating
children.
The
death
of
each
one
of
us
normally
implies
the
transmission
of
material
goods
from
one
generation
to
the
next.
In
this
way
objects
become
links,
tangible
vehicles
of
continuity
across
generations.
Tradition
is
perpetuated
in
this
transmission
of
goods,
in
a
freely-‐given
exchange,
based
on
the
logic
of
the
gift
and
of
restitution:
family
solidarity
generally
exists
beyond
Other
titles
by
the
same
author
the
logic
of
do
ut
des
and
establishes
that
virtuous
cycle
which
in
ancient
The
life
of
objects
sold
to:
symbolism
was
depicted
by
the
Three
Graces
or
Charities,
symbolizing
“grace”
Fordham
UP
(English)
–
not
in
the
sense
of
beauty
but
of
gratuitousness.
The
Graces
are
the
three
Amorrortu
(Spanish)
–
young
maidens
that
dance
in
a
circle,
symbolizing
benefit
(giving,
receiving
and
Matthes
&
Seitz
(German)
restoring)
which,
transmitted
from
hand
to
hand,
ultimately
returns
to
the
The
Logic
of
Delirium
sold
to:
original
giver.
Nowadays,
in
these
times
of
crisis
and
of
ever
scarcer
resources,
Epekeina
(Greek)
–
Aubier
people
feel
the
need
to
strengthen
social
bonds,
to
introduce
a
greater
degree
(French)
–
Ediciones
Catedra
of
justice
in
human
dealings,
and
to
generate
renewed
trust
among
the
(Spanish)
–
Oceano
(Spanish
in
generations.
Latin
America)
–
Edusc
(Portuguese)
–
The
Davies
Group
Today
this
culture
of
donation,
of
circular
generosity,
appears
to
have
become
(English)
an
alternative
to
an
economy
based
on
the
indefinite
growth
of
needs
and
desires.
This
project
of
“negative
growth”
and
“frugal
abundance”
could
provide
ways
of
restoring
tangible
and
intangible
resources
(objects,
security
and
affections)
to
the
younger
generations.
It
would
also
imply
a
profound
and
painful
shift
in
attitudes
and
policy,
above
all
in
the
spheres
of
ethics
and
economics.
Rather
than
providing
young
people
with
objects
or
keeping
them
at
home
into
their
adulthood,
it
implies
the
restoration
by
society
and
governments
of
the
conditions
for
their
autonomy.
“The
definitive
biography
of
the
Beatles,
the
greatest
pop
culture
phenomenon
of
all
time.”
Ernesto
Assante
ERNESTO
ASSANTE,
journalist
and
music
critic,
writes
for
la
Repubblica,
where
he
devised
and
managed
the
project
Repubblica.it.
He
also
writes
for
several
Italian
and
foreign
weekly
and
monthly
publications,
including
L’Espresso
and
Rolling
Stone.
He
worked
as
a
radio
host
for
RAI
and
as
a
screenwriter
for
RAI
and
Mediaset.
He
is
the
author
of
Metropolitan
Landscape
(Milan
1985)
and
Legends
of
Rock
(Vercelli
2007).
Luigi
Castaldo
GINO
CASTALDO,
journalist
and
music
critic,
writes
for
la
Repubblica,
where
he
was
editor
of
the
Musica
supplement.
His
published
works
include
The
Promised
Land.
Forty
years
of
rock
culture
(Milan
1994),
The
Singing
Apple.
Notes
for
a
musical
primer
(Rome
1996),
and
Darkness,
Fire
and
Desire.
Ode
on
the
death
of
music
(Turin
2008).
BEATLES
I
Robinson/Letture
pp.
300
Publication
in
May
It
is
difficult
to
imagine
music
without
the
Beatles,
our
lives
without
the
Beatles.
Track
after
track,
album
after
album,
the
extraordinary
story
of
the
“fabulous
four”
and
of
how
they
changed
the
world.
They
invented
the
“beat”.
Together
with
Bob
Dylan
they
were
the
fathers
of
Rock.
They
wrote
some
of
the
most
beautiful
and
legendary
songs
of
the
last
century.
They
helped
to
make
young
people
“visible”.
They
wrote
new
rules
for
clothing
and
living.
They
were
responsible
for
the
long
hair
of
an
entire
generation.
They
opened
up
the
borders
with
India,
changing
many
aspects
of
how
we
live,
and
much
more
besides.
All
of
this
took
less
than
ten
years,
from
1962
to
1970,
years
in
which
the
Beatles
recorded
a
dozen
albums
that
have
all
gone
down
in
history.
In
many
respects
it
was
a
revolutionary
decade,
just
as
the
Beatles
themselves
were
revolutionary:
in
how
they
dominated
the
stage,
their
dress,
their
private
and
public
personas,
their
musical
experimentation,
how
they
composed,
used
the
“The
journey
we
propose
has
never
been
recording
studios,
interacted
with
the
public,
bid
their
farewell
to
attempted:
to
relive
the
musical
adventure
of
the
stage…the
list
could
go
on
and
on.
Pop
music,
all
of
pop
music,
the
Beatles
step
by
step,
minute
by
minute,
owes
an
enormous
debt
to
the
Beatles.
Not
only
the
bands
and
note
by
note,
song
by
song,
to
enter
as
never
songwriters
who
deliberately
cited
them
in
their
work,
but
also
before
into
the
complex
psychological
and
artistic
mechanisms
of
their
musical
production.
those
who
rejected
them,
because
both
“fans”
and
“detractors”
A
human
and
artistic
adventure
reinterpreted
were
nevertheless
obliged
to
reckon
with
the
extraordinary
using
a
cinematographic
approach,
with
changes,
radical
innovations,
and
incredible
inventions
of
the
frequent
stills,
close-‐ups,
panoramic
shots,
Liverpool
four.
Innovations
that
would
forever
change
popular
sequences,
and
flashbacks.
The
purpose
of
our
music,
transforming
it,
opening
it
up,
freeing
it,
and
taking
it
to
the
journey
is
to
understand
the
greatest
story
of
popular
culture
in
the
twentieth
century,
and
to
level
of
an
art
form.
explore
an
incomparable
artistic
heritage.”
“The
first
biography
of
a
universal
genius.”
Massimiliano
Papini
Massimiliano
Papini
is
professor
of
Archeology
and
History
of
Greek
and
Roman
Art
at
the
Faculty
of
Humanities
and
Philosophy
in
the
La
Sapienza
University
of
Rome.
He
mostly
writes
on
the
history
of
ancient
Greek
and
Roman
art,
and
since
2012
has
been
a
Corresponding
Member
of
the
German
Archaeological
Institute.
In
addition
to
numerous
essays
in
specialist
reviews
and
exhibition
catalogues,
he
has
also
published
several
monographs.
Laterza
previously
published
Buried
Cities
and
Ruins
in
the
Greek
and
Roman
Worlds
(2011).
PHIDIAS
The
man
who
sculpted
the
Gods
pp.
298
Storia
e
Società
with
illustrations
Published
Massimiliano
Papini
breathes
life
into
the
artist
who
best
succeeded
in
interpreting
the
ideals
of
Periclean
Athens.
Table
of
Contents
The
statue
of
Zeus
at
Olympia,
one
of
the
Seven
Wonders
of
the
World,
is
the
work
of
Phidias.
It
is
unsurpassed
in
its
How
to
breathe
life
into
a
ghost
I.
Phidias’s
trial:
“art
theft”
portrayal
of
the
majesty
and
beauty
of
the
Gods.
This
II.
Whoever
dreamed
of
becoming
Phidias?
makes
it
all
the
more
regrettable
that
the
sole
surviving
III.
Phidias
as
a
young
man
and
the
reawakening
of
testimony
to
his
work
is
a
small
vase
in
Olympia
bearing
the
“sleeping
beauty”
inscription:
“I
belong
to
Phidias”.
IV.
Phidias
and
Athens:
the
years
of
consecration
Whatever
became
of
the
myriad
of
statues
in
gold
and
A
divine
hunter
of
grasshoppers
for
the
Acropolis
ivory,
bronze
and
marble?
All
vanished.
And
the
works
on
V.
The
decoration
of
the
Parthenon:
where
is
Phidias?
the
Athenian
Acropolis
completed
so
rapidly
and
destined
VI.
Athena
Parthenos:
grandeur
in
details
to
last
forever?
Were
they
really
overseen
by
the
sculptor?
VII.
“Breaking
Phidias’s
shield
is
not
like
chopping
up
a
Take
Phidias’s
friendship
with
Pericles,
indivisible
broom”
VIII.
A
contest,
four
amazons
and
a
loser
companions
according
to
the
sources
–
who
knows
how
IX.
A
competition
between
father
and
son
genuine
it
was
and
whether
they
were
truly
friends?
And
X.
“I
could
concede
to
no
man
that
he
were
a
better
where
is
the
sculptor’s
hand
in
the
decoration
of
the
sculptor
than
I”:
Phidias
on
Phidias
Parthenon?
We
know
that
he
completed
a
magnificent
statue
there,
cast
in
ivory
and
overlaid
with
1,000
kilos
of
gold
costing
more
than
the
temple
itself,
a
safe-‐haven
asset
in
the
event
of
an
emergency.
But
things
did
not
go
smoothly.
Jealousies
in
the
workshop
and
the
desire
of
Pericles’s
opponents
to
test
the
people’s
opinion
of
the
statesman
by
proxy
led
to
accusations
against
Phidias
that
he
had
stolen
gold
or
ivory
from
the
statue.
Others
close
to
the
sculptor
such
as
the
beautiful
Aspasia
and
the
philosopher
Anaxagoras
were
also
targeted
for
different
motives,
but
for
them
the
consequences
were
not
dire;
Phidias,
however,
was
not
so
lucky.
Marco
Politi
Marco
Politi
is
a
leading
international
expert
on
Vatican
issues.
Writer
for
the
newspaper
il
Fatto
Quotidiano
and
Vatican
correspondent
for
la
Repubblica
for
almost
twenty
years,
he
has
also
worked
with
ABC,
CNN,
BBC,
RAI,
ZDF,
and
France
2.
With
Carl
Bernstein
he
wrote
the
international
bestseller
His
Holiness
(1997)
on
John
Paul
II.
His
2004
interview
with
Joseph
Ratzinger
indicated
him
as
a
potential
pope.
His
other
publications
include:
Pope
Wojtyla.
The
farewell
(2007)
published
by
Morcelliana;
The
Return
of
God
(2004),
I,
Gay
Priest
(2006)
and
The
Church
That
Says
No
(2009)
published
by
Mondadori.
With
Laterza
he
published
Joseph
Ratzinger.
Crisis
of
a
papacy
(20132).
FRANCIS
AMONG
THE
WOLVES
pp.
256
The
secret
of
a
revolution
Publication
in
May
I
Robinson/Letture
Marco
Politi,
internationally
renowned
Vatican
insider,
had
predicted
Pope
Benedict
XVI’s
resignation
in
his
book
Joseph
Ratzinger.
Crisis
of
a
papacy.
Now
he
takes
the
reader
into
the
heart
of
Francis’s
reform,
a
massive
undertaking
that
has
met
with
approval
but
also
strong
discontent.
He
has
destroyed
the
image
of
a
cruel
Church
and
renounced
the
imperial
Other
titles
by
the
same
display
of
pontiffs,
presenting
himself
instead
as
a
parish
priest
concerned
with
author
helping
the
men
and
women
suffering
from
the
anxieties
of
modern
life
and
Joseph
Ratzinger.
Crisis
of
a
abandoned
to
the
solitude
of
the
economic
crisis.
For
Francis
there
are
no
papacy
sold
to:
Rotbuch
barriers
between
believers
and
non-‐believers.
He
does
not
judge
homosexuals.
(German)
On
Holy
Thursday
he
kissed
the
feet
of
a
young
Muslim
woman.
No
European
pontiff
knows
like
he
does
the
misery
of
the
marginalized,
having
spent
years
in
Argentina’s
shanty
towns.
He
is
a
human
being,
immersed
in
modernity.
He
practices
tenderness
and
compassion.
But
the
Argentine
pope,
like
the
Jesuit
he
is,
has
the
lucid
mind
of
a
politician:
his
papacy
is
more
than
the
extraordinary
communication
he
has
established
with
the
faithful
and
non-‐Catholics.
He
has
an
audacious
plan
to
reform
the
Church
in
the
twenty-‐first
century.
This
involves
ending
the
Church’s
era
of
governance
as
an
absolute
monarchy,
reforming
the
Roman
Curia,
adopting
the
principle
sanctioned
by
the
Second
Vatican
Council
on
bishops’
participation
at
the
helm
of
the
Church,
cleaning
up
the
IOR
and
Vatican
finances,
reorganizing
the
Italian
Episcopal
Conference
which
must
shed
its
political
role,
and
revising
the
Church’s
approach
to
problems
linked
to
sexuality.
Not
only
this:
he
wants
to
involve
women
in
the
top
decision-‐making
levels
of
his
reformed
Church.
The
revolution
has
just
begun:
the
outcome
is
uncertain
and
time
is
running
out.
Marco
Politi
provides
fresh
insights
from
behind
the
scenes
into
this
much
beloved
papacy:
the
resistances,
the
oppositions,
the
smear
campaigns
starting
with
the
historical
conclave
that
belied
the
hypothesis
of
an
Italian
papacy
and
instead
looked
beyond
Europe
for
its
new
Pontiff.
Idòla
Series
–
revealing
the
clichés
of
the
contemporary
era
Salvatore
Veca
SALVATORE
VECA
teaches
Philosophy
at
the
Institute
for
Advanced
Study
in
Pavia.
His
latest
publications
include:
The
Idea
of
Incompleteness.
Four
lessons
(Milan
2011);
The
Philosophical
Imagination
and
Other
Essays
(Milan
2012);
and
On
Secularity
(Bologna
2013).
With
Laterza
he
published:
The
Last-‐But-‐One
Word
and
Other
Enigmas
(2001);
Political
Philosophy
(revised
edition,
2010);
and
The
Idea
of
Justice
from
Plato
to
Rawls
(edited,
with
S.
Maffettone,
2012).
“There’s
No
Alternative”
pp.
128
FALSE!
Publication
in
May
Idola
Series
Denied
a
sense
of
possibility
and
stuck
in
the
trap
of
false
necessity,
we
have
no
future
and
we
have
forgotten
or
repressed
the
past.
But
that
there
is
no
alternative
to
the
way
things
are
is
simply
untrue.
In
the
great
crisis
in
which
we
are
mired
the
mantra
that
Other
titles
by
the
same
“there’s
no
alternative”
appears
destined
to
dominate
our
author
way
of
thinking.
There
is
no
alternative
to
the
policies
of
austerity,
the
judgment
of
Political
Philosophy
sold
to:
the
markets,
the
surrender
to
global
financial
capital,
and
to
soaring
inequality.
There
Amorrortu
(Spanish)
is
no
alternative
to
the
erosion
of
our
rights
and
opportunities
as
democratic
citizens;
to
a
market-‐based
Europe
as
opposed
to
a
rights-‐based
Europe.
We
are
in
a
kind
of
dictatorship
of
the
present,
conducted
in
the
name
of
a
hypocritical
realism,
robbing
any
sense
of
possibility
and
reducing
the
scope
for
political
and
moral
imagination.
The
result
is
a
shocking
increase
in
social
malaise.
We
are
in
desperate
need
of
new
and
audacious
ideas,
which
only
political
and
moral
imagination
can
generate.
Ideas
that
challenge
our
ultimate
goals
and
are
not
confined
to
the
means
at
our
disposal
for
exiting
the
crisis.
This
conversation
on
the
boundaries
of
the
possible
takes
place
in
three
stages.
In
the
first,
there
is
an
acknowledgement
of
the
political,
economic,
social
and
cultural
repercussions
of
the
great
crisis.
In
the
“I
wonder:
tools
to
exit
the
crisis
and
for
what?
To
get
back
on
the
old
merry-‐go-‐round?
To
continue
with
the
second,
an
enthusiastic
exploration
of
the
past
to
same
rules,
at
times
explicit
but
mostly
opaque,
of
illusory
rediscover
social
experiments
that
defeated
the
“no
growth
and
social
carnage,
towards
the
loss
and
alternative”
mantra
and
delivered
some
of
dissipation
of
the
fundamentals
of
a
democratic
and
civil
civilization’s
most
important
achievements.
The
third
coexistence?
The
point
is
that
we
have
simply
lost
sight
of
consists
in
restoring
the
possibility
of
conceiving
and
the
space
in
which
we
must
define
our
aims.
But
it
is
precisely
in
this
space
that
the
essential
features
of
how
desiring
new
social
worlds.
Of
the
categorical
desire
we
live,
of
how
institutions
are
organized,
of
social
called
utopia.
A
contextualized
and
realistic
utopia
practices
that
coincide
with
one
or
several
projects,
are
all
that
while
taking
reality
seriously
does
not
surrender
established.
Which
brings
us
back
to
the
vital
question:
or
renounce
the
possibility
of
a
praiseworthy
future.
what
idea
of
the
future
is
praiseworthy
and
why?
For
what
reasons
and
on
what
grounds?
For
what
collective
purpose
and
social
design?”
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