Bøger af Massimo Recalcati

For Recalcati, Jesus's reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of human weakness and an encounter with the Divine. It is the story where the Divine and the Human meet most forcefully, first in company, then in solitude, and where agony and doubt mingle with potential rebirth and revitalization. As the Gospels recount, after the Last Supper, Jesus retreated to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a group of armed men, and kisses him, betraying and abandoning him with a kiss. Jesus is forsaken by his friends and, it seems to him in this moment, by his father, his God. His sin, in Recalcati's view, is like Prometheus to have drawn Divine closer to man. The Night in Gethsemane is a revelatory, moving, and inspiring meditation by one of Italy's most important thinkers.

The kiss is the image that, perhaps more than any other, encompasses the beauty and poetry of love. Every love is required to maintain the kiss, to make it last. When they kiss, lovers carve out their hiding holes, finding their peace from war. When they kiss, the noise of the world is silenced, its laws broken, time is stolen from its normal continuity. They fall together in their distinct, embraced tongues. The kiss joins the tongue that declares love with the body of the lover. And the extinction of the kiss and, most importantly, of the desire to kiss one's beloved announces the demise of love. In this short book, Massimo Recalcati - one of Italy's leading intellectuals and bestselling authors - offers seven brief lessons on the mystery and miracle of love, from the serendipity of the first encounter to its end or its continuation over time, as mysterious and miraculous as the first encounter itself.

After the pandemic, Rome will never be the same again, because the Eternal City has discovered the silence of man’s absence, an overpowering loneliness.Like the rest of the world, Rome stopped during the pandemic triggered by Covid-19, remaining indefinitely in a state of suspended animation. The images taken in those days by the photographer Moreno Maggi capture this particular moment of a sleeping city and reveal a side of Rome that has never been seen before, in which the lines and geometries of the great works emerge more clearly than ever before, in all their beauty. Augmented reality makes the experience even more evocative, with visions of the deserted city created with a drone.Psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati reminds us of what can always happen in dreams or nightmares: the familiar scene of the city emptied out. Art historian Claudio Strinati, an exceptional guide to this surreal city, describes monuments, historic buildings, and squares. Beauty envelops us and saves us in a version of Rome that becomes a symbol of eternal rebirth. This is a large volume that commemorates one of the most intense periods of the century.

Secondo il racconto dei Vangeli, Gesù, dopo l'Ultima Cena, si ritira nei pressi di un piccolo campo poco fuori Gerusalemme: è il Getsemani, l'orto degli ulivi. Alla testa di un gruppo di uomini armati, arriva Giuda che indica Gesù ai soldati baciandolo. Questo bacio è divenuto il simbolo dell'esperienza straziante del tradimento e dell'abbandono. Ma anche i suoi discepoli e Pietro stesso, il più fedele tra loro, tradiscono il Maestro lasciandolo solo. Nella notte del Getsemani non c'è Dio, ma solo l'uomo. È lo scandalo rimproverato a Gesù: aver trascinato Dio verso l'uomo. La notte del Getsemani è la notte dove la vita umana si mostra nella sua più radicale inermità. In primo piano c'è l'esperienza dell'abbandono assoluto, della caduta, della prossimità irreversibile della morte e della preghiera. La notte del Getsemani è la notte dell'uomo.

"First published in 2019 with the title Manieni il bacio"--Verso.

"First published in 2017 in Italian under the title Il Secreto [sic] del Figlio."