2022 Program
Event #13
Saturday 3 September, 07.00 pm
piazza Matteotti1 - euro 4 + 1 *
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Matteo Nucci
Movement and time: Plato and Nietzsche
According to Plato, time belongs to the dimension of the becoming, whereas eternity rules the being. Movement is only possible in the dimension of time. But how do we, creatures of the becoming, move in time? We usually think of our path as a straight line going from the past into the present and the future. The Ancient people instead believed that movement was circular like the modern philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his famous idea of the “eternal return of the same”. There cannot be progress from the Creation to the Judgement Day – as the catholic vision says – nor towards the triumph of the reason – as thought during the Enlightenment. Only if we live every single moment with the awareness of the continuous passage between life and death, we can achieve our human nature.
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Matteo Nucci is author of novels, short stories, reportages and essays. He published the novels Sono comuni le cose degli amici (Ponte alle Grazie, 2009) and È giusto obbedire alla notte (Ponte alle Grazie, 2017) both finalist at Premio Strega, together with the novel-essay Il toro non sbaglia mai (Ponte alle Grazie, 2011) and L’abisso di Eros (Ponte alle Grazie, 2018). He translated the translation of Plato’s Symposium (Einaudi, 2009) and the narrative essays Le lacrime degli eroi (Einaudi, 2013) and Achille e Odisseo. La ferocia e l’inganno (Einaudi, 2020). His short stories have been published in collections and magazines, and his reportages on Il Venerdì di Repubblica and L’Espresso and online on minima et moralia. He is editor of a taurine culture website: www.uominietori.it. In September his latest novel Sono difficili le cose belle will be published by HarperCollins.
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