Tenerezza

A young philosopher re-evaluates the feeling of tenderness that is often cast aside, and rediscovers its strength on both a personal and political level.

When it is authentic, tenderness does not comply with easy definitions: it insinuates itself with delicate tenacity among the great civic virtues and the rhetoric of power; it is what we’re missing in order to finally live and feel in a communal world. For this reason, talking about it is a hard but beautiful feat. It is all the more important today, since our harsh reality has become undecipherable, narcissistic, violent yet sentimental at the same time.
From DeLillo to Pope Francis, Plato to Wislawa Szymborska, Max Weber to David Foster Wallace, Lucretius to Zizek, Enea to the migrant crisis, talking about tenderness means talking about love, the passing of time, and philosophy. It means talking about humanity, an interest in others, and the profound lightness that allows us to catch the deepest and most creative meanings behind our finiteness and our fragility.