2011 Programme
Evento n.28
Michela Marzano
Mind and body: anorexia, or the enigma of desire
Is it enough to ‘control oneself’ to live happily? Is it really true that ‘where there is a will there is a way’? Anorexia is one of the symptoms of a contemporary malaise that leads many to do all they can in order to become what others expert. The real problem with anorexia is not appetite, but the feeling of omnipotence that arises when one feels that he or she can control everything, including appetite. In their emaciated bodies, anorexic women defy death but suffer a deficit of desire. While challenging social norms they actually build a system of strict rules that cannot be trespassed. How could anorexics free their minds from the niggling ‘duty’ that makes their lives impossible? How could they let their real desire emerge and express themselves?
born in 1970, is an Italian philosopher who teaches at Paris’ Descartes University. She has authored a number of essays in moral and political philosophy: Penser les corps (2002); Je consens, donc je suis... (2006), both published by PUF-Presses Universitaires de France; and La fidélité ou l’amour à vif (Buchet-Chastel, 2005). Also, she edited the Dictionnaire du corps published in France in 2007. In 2008, the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur listed her among the 50 most influential thinkers in France and among the eight young intellectuals in their thirties who offer new perspectives on society. In Italy, she has published La filosofia del corpo (2010) and La fedeltà o il vero amore (2011) for il melangolo; Etica oggi (Centro Studi Erickson, 2011). Her books Estensione del dominio della manipolazione (2009), Sii bella e stai zitta. Perché l’Italia di oggi offende le donne (2010); Volevo essere una farfalla (due out in September 2011) are all published by Mondadori.
Evento n.6
Zygmunt Bauman
Reflections on the notions of community and network, on social networks and Facebook
Evento n.14
Gian Carlo Calza
Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West
Evento n.26
Franco Borgogno
In other people’s hearts and minds. A psychoanalyst between tradition and creativity
Evento n.37
Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni
A quiet sunny day. Attilio Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a friendship in verse
