Ancona, the festival of plural thought

It is entitled “Paths of Love”, the new edition of the Festival of Plural Thought, which kicks off on Friday 19 February with the lectio of Vito Mancuso, one of the most popular philosophers, theologians and writers, particularly linked to the philosophical review Le parole della storia which turns 2024 in 27, confirming itself as the longest running philosophy festival on the Italian scene.

During a press conference, called this morning at Palazzo Camerata, the first tranche of the program was presented, which will end on Monday 4 March.

Three meetings with philosophers are scheduled, curated by Antonio Luccarini, at the Auditorium of the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona (21,15 pm): Monday 19 February with Vito Mancuso, “Sacred love and profane love”; Thursday 29 February with Paolo Ercolani “The doubts of Love: demon or idol?”; Monday 4 March with Angelo Spina, Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo “Agape: the notion of love in Christianity”.

Again with Antonio Luccarini, two appointments are planned with the Philosophical Library, meetings with the authors which will be held at the Omero State Tactile Museum at 17,15pm on Thursday 29 February: Stefano Simoncelli “Under a false name” and. Pequod and Luigi Ferrari

“Shakespeare's Last Supper” ed. The Melangolo.

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They attended the presentation of the program the councilor for Culture, Anna Maria Bertini, Antonio Luccarini, artistic director, Francesca Di Giorgio, “Lirici Greci”, visual communication manager, Maria Ausilia Gambacorta, president of the “Forma Formante” association, Filiberto Manzoni, Alberto Corinaldesi Foundation, Roberto Trignani, President of the Riviera del Conero Rotary Club, Serenella Spaccacaniccia, President of the Ancona Rotary Club, District 2029, Aldo Grassini, president of the Omero State Tactile Museum; Cristina Gorajiski and Bona Finocchi respectively president and vice president of the Ancona Riviera del Conero section of BPW Italy Fidapa.

They support the initiative, sponsored by the Municipality of Ancona and the Marche Region, the Polytechnic University of Marche, Criluma Viaggi, AssiAdriatica. UnipolSai- Ancona, Jesi, Osimo, Fidapa, BPW Italy-Sez. Ancona-Riviera del Conero, SFI Italian Philosophical Society Ancona, Grand Hotel Palace, Fogola bookshop.

STATEMENTS

“La Mole has begun its own philosophical journey which is continuing with the Festival of Plural Thought which is important for its historicity because it was the first festival in the Italian panorama for over a quarter of a century. Meetings at various levels and even across the territory allow culture to enter more and more into the life of the city, creating a strong and important match between what is proposed and what is received. I thank Giancarlo Galeazzi, creator of the festival, Professor Luccarini, artistic director and all the sponsors who made this initiative possible” stated the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Ancona, Anna Maria Bertini.

“Started in 1997, the Festival of Plural Thought has never been an ideological place but a place where philosophy investigated and investigates itself with the most important voices. This is how it happens again this year. I thank all those who wanted to support this 2024 edition” declared Professor Antonio Luccarini, artistic director.

“We were the first in Italy to bring the philosopher on stage and encourage a direct discussion with the audience; this year the Festival of Plural Thought is also expanding to the city with an initiative spread across various places to make the event increasingly engaging and shared" stated Francesca Di Giorgio, "Lirici Greci", visual communications manager.

“Love is the engine of the world. We are in a moment in which we live immersed in wars which are the opposite of love. This year's theme of the event concerns love and we must understand that love is peace that is born from the family and then gradually moves to the nations" explained Aldo Grassini, president of the Omero State Tactile Museum.

“We consider this initiative to be important for Ancona; highlighting philosophical thought in this historical moment is important for an interpretation of the human being and of the new social life that we cannot neglect" asserted Serenella Spaccacaniccia, President of the Rotary Club of Ancona, District 2029.

“The Rotary wanted to support this project to give a cultural and important event to our city” underlined Massimiliano Olivieri for the Rotary 2090 district.

“We share the spirit that animates this event and we are happy to participate and support it” said Filiberto Manzoni, Alberto Corinaldesi Foundation.

“The concept of love which is also experienced in a negative way is very close to our hearts; instead we want to relaunch a positive image: there is not only sick love, which hurts and humiliates...instead there is a noble feeling that must be cultivated, which must be stimulated at all levels, an education for the young but also for the older ones ” said Maria Ausilia Gambacorta, president of the “Forma Formante” association.

“Love and music will be the conference that we will organize in May and which will continue the series of events of the festival” announced Cristina Gorajiski and Bona Finocchi respectively president and vice president of the Ancona Riviera del Conero section of the BPW Italy Fidapa

PLURAL THOUGHT FESTIVAL 2024 The Words of Philosophy Festival conceived by Giancarlo Galeazzi and directed by Antonio Luccarini 27th edition: “Paths of Love”

Heidegger maintains that Eros-Love guides the movement of thought and gives it wings, allowing it to fly: every essential step on the speculative level finds its generative force in love. He intends to refer to the plurality expressed by the title of the programming of the philosophical meetings of our review which, now in its 27th edition, confirms itself as the longest running Philosophy Festival on the Italian national scene. The devastating extent of the systemic crisis, which besieges the present at the level of values, ecological balances, economic, social and political stability, would apparently seem to relegate the theme of love to the margins of speculative debate, given the dramatic nature of the urgencies that demand, not only insights, but, above all, solutions that cannot be postponed. But if it is true that with philosophy living questions itself, it must be admitted that the most pressing questions concern fundamental events such as Love. In truth, the forms that define contemporaneity, in the triumph of technology, in the emancipations achieved in the sexual spheres, socio-economic and cultural, they give us a completely new conception of love compared to the past: love freed from the social constraints imposed by tradition manifests itself in the present as the main space for the fulfillment of the individual, for his most intimate choices and for the affirmation of his identity, precisely in relation to the other.

The Festival will be structured as follows: the THE WORDS OF PHILOSOPHY -Meetings with philosophers, at 21.15pm in the Auditorium of the Mole Vanvitelliana (replacing the Teatro Sperimentale); in this year's survey we will have the support of the authoritative, yet heterogeneous, voices of: Vito Mancuso, Paolo Ercolani, Angelo Spina, Marcello Veneziani, Diego Fusaro, Roberto Mancini, Alberto Maggi.

Continue with news pills AT SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY also in this case with a plurality of voices, who will take turns in the classrooms of the Faculty of Economics and Business at 17.15 pm

The philosophical debate returns with the students of the "Savoia Benincasa" Scientific High School in Ancona, and returns to a theme to which young people are particularly sensitive, that of love, which in the meeting to be held in March in the main hall of the 'Institute in via Marini, when will love be presented under the title “Eros and/or agape?”. These two forms of love are seen not as alternatives to each other (eros aut agape), which is the most usual approach, but in their complementarity (eros et agape), to say that there is a need for both another: both of desire love (eros) and of gift love (agape). As in every debate, in this one too the pros and cons for one and the other form of love will be presented, starting from the belief that it is not a question of choosing one or the other but of experiencing the beauty of 'one and also the other, because they are different ways of experiencing love and each is valid if it does not claim to be all-encompassing, that is, to be the only expression of love.

New this year is THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY – meetings with Italian authors – a sort of urban incursions in various places in the city including museums, libraries, bookshops and private spaces. The first two authors invited to inaugurate the first part will be Stefano Simoncelli with the book Sotto false nome (ed. Pequod) finalist in the first edition of the "Premio Strega" for poetry 2023 and Luigi Ferrari with his book Il cenacolo di Shakespeare ed. The Melangolo.

In its fourfold articulation, the Festival wants to be what it has always been: an exercise in thought under the banner of pluralism, an invitation to reflect on issues disputed today, an opportunity for theoretical discussion open to all in the awareness that philosophy is not only a professional activity for some and a school subject for others, but it is also the privileged place for a dialectical and dialogic experience, which finds the space to be exercised in democratic society. In particular, the ambition of our Festival is to cultivate the relationship of the polis with the logos, without neglecting ethos and pathos, in the belief that philosophy is called to make us aware of the complexity of being a person. Thus, thanks to the support of various bodies, first and foremost and always the Municipality of Ancona, the Festival has allowed us to "get together to think" and to "meet to think together". In Ancona, a city of commerce: of things but also of ideas.

All meetings are ad FREE ADMISSION– while places last.

THE WORDS OF PHILOSOPHY 27th Edition ANCONA 2024

FIRST PART

Vito Mancuso, lay theologian and philosopher, was a professor at the San Raffaele universities Milano and Padua and currently teaches at the master's degree in Meditation and Neuroscience at the University of Udine. You founded and directs the "Ethics Laboratory" in Bologna. After having collaborated for years with Repubblica, since 2022 he has been a columnist for La Stampa. He is the author of numerous essays on topics such as Hegel's philosophy, disease and pain, the nature of God, the soul, love, thought, freedom, the cardinal virtues, beauty, courage, fear , the meaning of life. In a large essay he presented in synopsis the figures of Socrates, Buddha, Confucius and Jesus. His thought can overall be defined as "philosophy of relationship". The latest book is Non ti mai la gioia (Garzanti 2023).

Paolo Ercolani (Rome 1972) is a philosopher at the "Carlo Bo" University of Urbino, as well as an essayist and lecturer. His books and scientific articles have been published in English, German and Portuguese, as well as in Italian. A pupil of Domenico Losurdo, he has been studying the evolution of liberal society for many years, with particular reference to technological and pedagogical issues. He is one of the founders and member of the scientific committee of the international association «Filosofia in Movimento» (www.filosofiainmovimento.it). After having collaborated for years with «il Manifesto» and «MicroMega», today he writes for the cultural pages of «Corriere della sera» and for «Il Fatto Quotidiano». Guest of the most authoritative Italian and international cultural festivals, he is a columnist for «Il Resto del Carlino» and a constant author for «Rai Scuola», «Rai Filosofia» and «Rai Cultura».

His latest book, «Nietzsche the Hyperborean. The prophet of the death of man in the age of artificial intelligence" (Il Nuovo Melangolo, 2022), was defined as "brilliant" by Sossio Giametta in the Domenicale of Il Sole 24 Ore.

Monsignor Angelo Spina (born in Colle d'Anchise in 1954), after being bishop of Sulmona-Valva, was elevated metropolitan archbishop of Ancona-Osimo by Pope Francis in 2017. In 2019 he was elected vice president of the Marche Episcopal Conference . Among his publications we remember from Palumbi: On the way towards love. A “yes” for love, forever (2015), Barefoot. Francis' journey in the Marche (2019), A story, a star, a stable. Three words inside Christmas (2021); we remember from Shalom Happy to believe. We believe (2021). On March 4th he will carry out some reflections on Christian agape, that is, on that form of love as giving that finds its model in Jesus: "love one another as I have loved you" which inaugurates the new law of evangelical love.

THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY Meetings with the authors

FIRST PART

Stefano Simoncelli was born in 1950 in Cesenatico but for several years has lived in Acquarola on the hills of Cesena. In the seventies he was one of the vital editors of Sul porto, an important poetry and political magazine which had among its collaborators the most significant poets of the twentieth century. His publications have won numerous awards and recognitions. With the book Sotto false nome published by Pequod; in 2023 he was a finalist in the first edition of the “Premio Strega” for poetry.

Luigi Ferrari born in Milano currently lives in Pesaro. Graduated in Architecture, he also graduated in polyphonic composition and musical analysis Milano. You have collaborated with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, the Teatro alla Scala, the Contemporary Music Festival at the Venice Biennale. He was Director and Superintendent of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, artistic director of the Rossini Opera Festival, of the Wexford Festival Opera, of the Teatro della Maestranza of Seville, superintendent of the Toscanini Foundation and presides over the National Institute of Verdian Studies and the Reggio Parma Festival Association. Il cenacolo Shakespeare published by Il Melangolo is his second novel.

The Forma formant APS Association was established on 20/05/52023 and is currently led by a board of directors made up of five members: Maria Ausilia Gambacorta is president, Antonello Mariotti vice-president. The association is based in Ancona at the office of its president and has obtained registration in the Single National Register of third sector bodies. The purposes pursued are those of promoting cultural, artistic or recreational activities of social interest, including editorial activities, promotion and dissemination of culture. With a view to pursuing its statutory objectives and, in particular, to promoting a culture based on values ​​such as universal access to knowledge, solidarity and the well-being of people as their spiritual needs, the Association plans events and promotes moments of educational insights.

Lirici Greci Comunicazione was founded in 1987 in Ancona. The studio develops strategic design through creative consultancy, with its team of graphic designers, architects and photographers, creates ideas, communication projects, and follows clients in every phase of implementation. He has been following the Plural Thought Festival project for twenty-six years in collaboration with Prof. Giancarlo Galeazzi, creator and scientific director of the "Words of Philosophy" and the "School of Philosophy"; honorary president of the Italian Philosophical Society of Ancona; Jacques Maritain scholar; emeritus professor at the Marche Theological Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University and author of multiple volumes on philosophical thought and notebooks of the Regional Council of the Marche. In 2017 the Plural Thought Festival won the AWDA – Aiap Women Award in the “Professionals” category, 2017  link