The praise of philosophy in the new issue of «la Lettura» – Corriere.it

In 2008, Chris Anderson “developed the thesis, provocative but certainly effective, according to which the mass of data ensured by the ubiquitous computing capacity provided by ultra-powerful computers would have rendered the theory useless”. But is not so: philosophy is as lively and healthy as ever. He talks about it in the new issue of «la Lettura», #583, on Saturday 28 January in preview on the App of the supplement and on Sunday 29 on newsstands with «Corriere», the philosopher Maurice Ferraris.

In good health, they point out Marinella Perroni and Brunetto Salvarani, curators of Looking to the theology of the future (Claudiana), it is also the theology, although it has been said that the theological thought of the twentieth century ended with Ratzinger’s death.

To the literary canon of the third millennium instead a text by is dedicated Alberto Casadei. The influence of TV series and social media, explains the Italianist, has drawn a new map of readings. Inside, there are for example the rewrites of Madeline Miller’s classics, but not theIliad and theOdyssey. And then HP Lovecraft, JK Rowling, Erin Doom…

And again, in the insert, they talk about light and dark the biologist Johan Eklöf and the medievalist Beatrice Del Bo in the conversation edited by Annachiara Sacchi. «La Lettura» also shows the 28 works (out of 37) by Vermeer, all at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from 10 February, commented, in the article by Stefano Bucci, by the director Taco Dibbits. And, interviewed by Helmut Failoni, Riccardo Chailly celebrates his 70th birthday by celebrating the composer Prokof’ev (who died 70 years ago).

In addition to the new number, the App hosts the Theme of the Day: today a preview song from At the tip of the pen by Yukio Mishima (Feltrinelli, from 31 January), volume reviewed in the supplement by Marco Del Corona.

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