Friday 28/8/2020 at 17:30
Books
"Aperitivo with the author" in Asiago, cultural meetings organized by the Library Joints at the Point
On Friday, August 28, 2020,the famous philosopher MASSIMO CACCIARI will be in Asiago to present his latest book "The Work of the Spirit".
The meeting will be held in the forecourt in front of the Asiago Cathedral,at 17.30.
Another interesting appointment of the"Aperitif with the Author"exhibition, organized by the bookstore Giunti at the Point of Asiago,which as every year animates the Asian summer.
INFO AND BOOKINGS
BOOKING REQUIRED
For security reasons, booking is required to attend thisyear's meetings!
Reservations must be made at the Asiago SIT, contactable by clicking on
The meetings will be held in Piazza Carli,in the forecourt of the Cathedral, in Asiago. In accordance with all anti-Covid19 security protocols, anarea with about 300 seatswill be set up, which will be sanitized after each use, and a route with entry and exit.
In case of bad weather the meeting will be held at the Millepini Theatre
BOOK "THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT""
Between 1917 and 1919 Max Weber gave two lectures entitled Die geistige Arbeit als Beruf, which we could translate "The work of the spirit as a profession". A very important formulation, because it represented the regulatory idea, the project and the hope that had animated the world of the great bourgeois culture between Kant and Goethe, between Romanticism and Schiller, between Fichte and Hegel, and would have formed the common thread of the same subsequent revolutionary thought, from Feuerbach to Marx. The "work of the spirit" is creative, autonomous work, human work considered in all its actuous power, and turning to its affirmation means liberation of all activity from the condition of work commanded, dependent, that is alienated. But its dissolution in the capitalist form of production, in the universal cumbersome, which swallows that Science which is also the authentic engine of development, ends up delegitimizing the same political authority, which in the "promise of liberation" finds its foundation. Is the 'steel cage' destined to imprison the 'work of the spirit' which is political practice? Will the spirit of capitalism end up completely deconstructing Politico's space, reducing it to the form of the contract? Or between Science and Politics are still conceivable and possible relations that afflict us from our "debt" with regard to proceeding without goals or ends of the economic technical system? These are the current questions that, a century ago, no one asked with the dramatic clarity of Max Weber - and with which, today, Massimo Cacciari confronts.
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