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2011 Programme

Evento n.29

Alfonso Berardinelli

Intellectual types, styles and powers

Intellectual independence is more and more of a challenge today, but who are intellectuals, and what is their role? They should not be viewed as a social group: in the best cases they are individuals whose power often lies just in the fact that they cannot be categorized. In Berardinelli’s view, there are three types of intellectuals: the Metaphysical, the Technical and the Critical. The contradictions between culture and society tend to make intellectuals of all types suspicious of sociability and its rules. Their misanthropy is not hostility, distrust and contempt of man and mankind in abstract terms but aversion to man as a ‘social animal.’ Their true target is the ‘sociable man’ who is always ready and inclined to obeying the rules of society.

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Alfonso Berardinelli

is one of Italy’s leading literary critics and essayists. His fields of interest are modern poetry, literary teorie, history of literary criticism, and the relations between intellectuals and power. Together with P. Bellocchio, he has founded and edited Diario, a leading literary review. From 1983 to 1995 he has taught Contemporary Literature at Venice university, before resigning to protest the closed nature of Italy’s cultural system. He currently contributes to Il Sole 24 Ore, Avvenire and Il Corriere della sera. He has authored many books, including L’eroe che pensa. Disavventure dell’impegno (1997) and Poesia non poesia (2008) for Einaudi; L’ABC del mondo contemporaneo (minimum fax, 2004); Casi critici. Dal postmoderno alla mutazione (Quodlibet, 2007). Marsilio published his books La forma del saggio. Definizione e attualità di un genere letterario (2002), Non incoraggiate il romanzo (2011). Che intellettuale sei? (2011) is published by nottetempo.


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Evento n.21

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Evento n.24

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Evento n.26

Franco Borgogno

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Evento n.27

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Evento n.29

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Evento n.30

Luca Scarlini

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Evento n.31

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Evento N.34

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Evento n.37

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