A quote from Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W Adorno, “Dialettica dell’Illuminismo”, Torino, Einaudi, 1996 pg11. Weak thought‘ (pensiero debole) – A label applied to the work of Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo – is an attempt to understand and re-configure traces from the history of thought in ways that accord with …
Month: December 2021
Journeys of anxieties of an era: secularism and the fatherless society. The personal emancipation process from the father figure, that up to now we have only hinted at (see Rays of Hope: Journeys of Anxieties – part 1), has occurred over the last centuries even at societal level, changing the then current mentality and giving …
Journeys of our personal anxieties. There are many ways to reject God. The most common, and one of the best hidden in our subconscious, is to refuse to accept death. Yet, we are all on a journey, whether short or long, that will take us inexorably towards it. Some try to console themselves by thinking …