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Hercules Against the Moon Men Herald 1965 Alan Steele as Hercules!
Directed by Giacomo Gentilomo / Starring Sergio Ciani (billed as "Alan Steel"; in the title role as Hercules/Maciste), Jany Clair, Anna Maria Polani, Nando Tamberlani, Delia D'Alberti, and Jean Pierre Honore
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Condición: BUONO USATO. Einaudi. Stile libero extra ITALIANO IL LIBRO È USATO, PERTANTO POTREBBE PRESENTARE LIEVI DIFETTI/IMPERFEZIONI. LA FOTO CORRISPONDE AL LIBRO IN VENDITA. Don Andrea, don Gino, don Giacomo e don Dario credono che il Vangelo si ripeta ogni giorno nella nostra vita. Basta prestare attenzione. L'incontro con q…uattro preti che hanno riconosciuto la figura di Gesù tra i matti, gli handicappati, i poveri, i tossici, i carcerati. E che, per questo, si sforzano da sempre di seguire le indicazioni cristiane - semplici, ma non facili - anche scontrandosi contro la Chiesa ufficiale. Attraverso le loro storie - spesso ai limiti della povertà, della violenza e del dolore - sapremo dove hanno cercato Dio e se, e come, l'hanno trovato. I luoghi in cui si rintracciano, oggi, le parabole del Nuovo Testamento e qual è la strada da percorrere per ritrovare il senso di un'esistenza autentica e piena. Curatore: Pozzi, P. Numero pagine 114. Il copyright dei dati è di Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl.
Dov'è Dio. Il vangelo quotidiano secondo quattro preti di strada
Don Dario Ciani, Don Andrea Gallo, Don Giacomo Panizza, Don Gino Rigoldi
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Condición: OTTIMO USATO. IED. Einaudi. Stile Libero Extra ITALIANO I edizione, a cura di Pierfilippo Pozzi, brossura editoriale flessibile, illustrata, con alette, qualche leggera ombratura e piccolo segno da compressione al piatto anteriore, pagine leggermente ingiallite ai bordi causa tempo restando comunque in buonissimo stat…o di conservazione. Numero pagine 114.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This is not a book about success stories. It isn't, and that is a deliberate choice. There already exists an abundant production of texts celebrating extraordinary rises, flashes of genius, charismatic leaders, or favorable contexts turned into once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Bookstores an…d online platforms are filled with manuals promising the formula for rapid growth, biographies recounting the path of great entrepreneurs, and essays explaining how to spot winning opportunities. These are stimulating reads, but they share an obvious limitation: every success story is unique. What works in one context rarely works in another, and turning an unrepeatable event into a universal rule risks misleading more than helping. Rich Dad Poor Dad, The 18 Rules of Success, Trade in a Day, Wealth in 4 Weeks, Financial Freedom in Two Afternoons a Month. That is not the focus here. Billion-dollar success stories are episodic, just as spectacular collapses are, but in between lies a whole spectrum: people and small businesses that, with some discipline and a few clear rules, can manage not to end up in default.Every victory has its own combination, difficult to replicate: the right timing, the right people in the right place, favorable economic conditions, a spark of intuition, and sometimes even a significant dose of luck. The sum of these factors may generate a positive outcome, but it does not constitute a model to follow word for word. That is why, viewed critically, books about success resemble rhetorical exercises more than operational tools. They can inspire, but rarely do they provide transferable rules for real life.Failure, on the other hand, repeats itself with surprisingly consistent patterns. It doesn't matter whether we are speaking of a multinational corporation, a small family business, or an individual managing their household finances: the dynamics that lead to collapse share common traits, recognizable and often predictable. The inability to read signs of change, overconfidence in one's own convictions, superficial risk management, the accumulation of unsustainable debt-these elements recur again and again. The names and industries change, but the underlying patterns look the same.Studying failure, then, is not an exercise in morbid curiosity but an act of pragmatism. Looking directly at what went wrong for others allows us to draw practical lessons, often far more useful than celebrating victories. Not because there exists any formula for total protection against mistakes, but because knowing the mistakes already made reduces the likelihood of repeating them. Other people's failures become a kind of preventive map: a set of warning signals anyone can learn to recognize.It is important to be clear: a book that speaks more of failure than of success does not set out to offer definitive solutions or guaranteed shortcuts. Its purpose is to provide a mirror. A mirror reflecting mistakes already made-sometimes by giants that seemed untouchable, other times by families or small business owners forced to confront the fragility of their balance sheets. This mirror does not serve to ridicule those who have fallen, nor to pass quick judgments. Failure carries concrete consequences: pain, loss, frustration. For that reason, it deserves respect. And it is precisely from respect that the possibility of learning can arise. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The middle class has become the true battleground of contemporary capitalism: not to be annihilated, but to be kept in a state of functional tension-solid enough to produce income and tax revenue, insecure enough to never stop spending. On one side, marketing woos it with the precision of an… algorithm that knows tastes, habits, vulnerabilities, and sleep schedules; on the other, the tax authority measures its payroll regularity as the most reliable form of supply, with withholding at the source, estimated payments, surtaxes, and true-ups that arrive as punctually as paychecks, but with the side effect of tightening the room for maneuver until it is reduced to a corridor. In between, the middle class holds the country together: it works, pays, consumes, raises children, sustains domestic demand; and precisely for this reason it is the preferred target of those who sell belonging and those who collect stability.Marketing knows its psychology better than its bank does: it knows that the greatest fear is not poverty but the loss of status, the idea of sliding backward without any longer being able to "make it" with decorum; and so it modulates seduction into non-negotiable "little yeses"-a "pro" plan that promises efficiency, the slightly superior car "for safety," the device upgrade "to work better," the weekend "to unplug and restart"-all justified by a vocabulary of good reasons that never asks for the full price, because it spreads it, hides it, fragments it. Meanwhile the tax authority does not seduce: it levies. It does not ask for emotional assent, but for accounting assent; and since evasion is not an option for those who live on fixed income, the pressure is unloaded onto the after-tax period, that is, onto that residue of freedom that remains at the end of the month and becomes the true field to be conquered by the market. This is where the combined strategy works: the net take-home pay determines capacity, advertising determines the use of that capacity, and autopay guarantees its continuity.The result is a cultural paradox: one works with constancy, contributes with discipline, consumes with apparent moderation-and yet lives with the feeling of not being able to absorb the unexpected, of having to ask the bank for "oxygen" for every boiler breakdown, extra servicing, or unanticipated tax. The bank, which knows the statistics of normality well, does not finance poverty and does not pamper wealth: it offers bridges to the middle class-credit lines, micro-installments, cards that "spread it out," "peace-of-mind" loans-because the ideal customer is neither the free one nor the desperate one; it is the one who stays in balance with debt without ever extinguishing it. And so the dignity of work finds itself wedged into the dignity of paying on time, which is a lesser, defensive dignity, with little narrative to it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Paradox of Theseus Revisited Through a Management Lens.The Greek philosopher and priest Plutarch recounts that, on the return from Crete, the ship with which Theseus had taken the Athenian youths away from the labyrinth was not left to the ordinary fate of useful things, but kept back th…e way a symbol is kept back: Athens held it in harbor, displayed it, named it, and above all maintained it, replacing what rotted with what could bear, as one does with everything one wishes eternal while knowing it to be vulnerable. In that continuous maintenance - a plank changed, a beam reinforced, a mast rebuilt - the most unsettling fact occurred, because no single gesture was revolutionary and yet, over time, every gesture was decisive: with no precise day one could point to, every original element disappeared, and the civic relic remained, intact in name, altered in substance, ready to demand an accounting from whoever looked upon it. The heart of the story lies precisely in this slowness: not in the storm that snaps, but in the salt that consumes, in the patience with which a city cultivates its own memory the way one cultivates a public good, until that public good also becomes a conceptual trap. Because to preserve a ship does not mean merely to repair it; it also means deciding what one truly intends by "that ship," and deciding this without declaring it, letting the agreement remain implicit, until the implicit begins to weigh more than the timber.At that point the question became inevitable, and for that very reason dangerous, because it is not a question for a shipyard but a question for conscience: is it still the ship of Theseus, if what composes it is no longer what once composed it? Identity, when one interrogates it, reveals itself to be less a fact and more a pact; and pacts, as we know, last as long as someone recognizes them, as long as someone tells them, as long as someone defends them without turning them into superstition, but also without selling them off as though they were an optional extra. Whoever keeps an object over time often keeps, in reality, their own version of that object, and when matter changes without clamor, the risk is not rupture, it is habituation: one gets used to calling equal things that are becoming different. It is here that the paradox stops being a game and becomes a moral device, because it forces one to ask who has the right to say "it's the same," by what criterion and with what interest, and how long that criterion remains shared. And it also compels one to recognize that a name, when it outlives matter, is not merely a label: it is a commitment, a promise of continuity that is never signed once and for all, but renewed with every gesture that contradicts it or confirms it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Más imágenesDOV'È DIO. IL VANGELO QUOTIDIANO SECONDO QUATTRO PRETI DI STRADA. A CURA DI PIERILIPPO POZZI
DON DARIO CIANI, DON ANDREA GALLO, DON GIACOMO PANIZZA, DON GINO RIGOLDI
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Brossura. Condición: nuovo. Estado de la sobrecubierta: ottimo. prima edizione. DISPONIBILITÀ GARANTITA AL 99%; SPEDIZIONE ENTRO 12 ORE DALL'ORDINE. RIMANENZA DI MAGAZZINO PARI AL NUOVO. LIEVISSIMI SEGNI DEL TEMPO. La vita, i dubbi, gli incontri decisivi e gli scontri con la Chiesa di quattro sacerdoti «ostinati e contrari» che…hanno cercato Dio per strada, tutti i giorni, tra gli ultimi del mondo. Don Andrea Gallo, don Gino Rigoldi, don Giacomo Panizza e don Dario Ciani credono che il Vangelo si ripeta ogni giorno nella nostra vita. Basta prestare attenzione. L'incontro con quattro preti che hanno riconosciuto la figura di Gesù tra i matti, gli handicappati, i poveri, i tossici, i carcerati. E che, per questo, si sforzano da sempre di seguire le indicazioni cristiane - semplici, ma non facili - anche scontrandosi contro la Chiesa ufficiale. Attraverso le loro storie - spesso ai limiti della povertà, della violenza e del dolore - sapremo dove hanno cercato Dio e se, e come, l'hanno trovato. I luoghi in cui si rintracciano, oggi, le parabole del Nuovo Testamento e qual è la strada da percorrere per ritrovare il senso di un'esistenza autentica e piena. Descrizione bibliografica Titolo: Dov'è Dio. Il Vangelo quotidiano secondo quattro preti di strada Autore: Don Andrea Gallo, Don Gino Rigoldi, Don Giacomo Panizza, Don Dario Ciani Curatore: Pierfilippo Pozzi Editore: Torino: Giulio Einaudi, Maggio 2011 Lunghezza: 114 pagine; 22 cm ISBN: 8806208551, 9788806208554 Collana: Einaudi. Stile libero Extra Soggetti: Religione, Spiritualità, Cristianesimo, Istituzioni e organizzazioni cristiane, Antropologia, Letteratura cristiana, Chiesa, Evangelizzazione, Emarginazione, Preti di strada, Catechismo, Povertà, Volontariato, Giovani, Missionari, Biografie, Testimonianze, Storie vere, Violenza, Criminalità, Ragazzi violento, Disagio giovanile, Tossicodipendenza, Fede, Riscatto, Etica, Parola di Cristo, Lombardia, Liguria, Calabria, Emilia Romagna, Comunità Nuova, Vangelo, Vita quotidiana, Gerarchia cattolica, Clero, Sacerdoti, Fuori dal coro, Assistenza, Asilo, Progetto Sud, 'ndrangheta, Riflessioni, Gruppo Sadurano, Comunità, Ospitalità, Integrazione, Accoglienza, Parabole, Nuovo Testamento, Catechesi, Società, Carità, Speranza, Esperienze, Religion, Spirituality, Christianity, Christian institutions and organizations, Anthropology, Christian literature, Church, Evangelization, Marginalization, Street priests, Catechism, Poverty, Volunteering, Youth, Missionaries, Biographies, Testimonies, True stories, Violence, Crime, Violent children, Youth discomfort, Drug addiction, Faith, Ransom, Ethics, Word of Christ, New Community, Gospel, Daily life, Catholic hierarchy, Clergy, Priests, Out of the choir, Assistance, Asylum, Southern Project, Reflections, Groups, Community, Hospitality, Integration , Welcome, Parables, New Testament, Catechesis, Society, Charity, Hope, Experiences Parole e frasi comuni aiuto amore aspetti bambini Beccaria bisogno Bussecchio Calabria cambiare capire carcere casa cercare chiamano Chiesa comportamenti conoscere cooperative costruire credo cristiani diocesi Genova disabili diventare prete dolore domanda Don Andrea Gallo don Bosco don Gallo Ecco emarginati famiglia comunità fede figli genitori Gesù Cristo giorno giudicare giustizia gruppo handicappati imparato incontri amore idea incontro uomo Lamezia Terme lavoro madre Martin Luther King mondo ndrangheta normalità padre papa Giovanni XXIII parlare parole parrocchia paura peccato persone politica Pontoglio potere principî ragazzi relazione risposta Sadurano Salesiani seminario servizio situazione sociale sofferenza sorella tossicodipendenti trovare umana Vangelo vedere vescovo vivere Yahweh.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. IL PARADOSSO DI TESEO RILETTO ALLA LUCE DEL MANAGEMENT.Il filosofo e sacerdote greco Plutarco racconta che, al ritorno da Creta, la nave con cui Teseo aveva sottratto i giovani ateniesi al labirinto non fu lasciata al destino ordinario delle cose utili, ma trattenuta come si trattiene un sim…bolo: Atene la tenne in porto, la mostro, la nomino, e soprattutto la mantenne, sostituendo cio che marciva con cio che reggeva, come si fa con tutto cio che si desidera eterno pur sapendolo vulnerabile. In quella manutenzione continua - una tavola cambiata, una trave rinforzata, un albero ricostruito - avvenne il fatto piu inquietante, perche nessun gesto era rivoluzionario e tuttavia, nel tempo, ogni gesto fu decisivo: senza un giorno preciso da indicare, ogni elemento originario scomparve, e la reliquia civile resto, intatta nel nome, mutata nella sostanza, pronta a chiedere conto a chi la guardava. Il cuore del racconto sta proprio in questa lentezza: non nella tempesta che spezza, ma nel sale che consuma, nella pazienza con cui una citta coltiva la propria memoria come si coltiva un bene pubblico, finche quel bene pubblico diventa anche una trappola concettuale. Perche conservare una nave non significa soltanto ripararla, significa anche decidere che cosa si intende davvero per "quella nave", e decidere questo senza dichiararlo, lasciando che l'accordo resti implicito, finche l'implicito comincia a pesare piu del legno.A quel punto la domanda divenne inevitabile, e proprio per questo pericolosa, perche non e una domanda da cantiere ma una domanda da coscienza: e ancora la nave di Teseo, se cio che la compone non e piu cio che la componeva? L'identita, quando la si interroga, si rivela meno un fatto e piu un patto; e i patti, si sa, durano finche qualcuno li riconosce, finche qualcuno li racconta, finche qualcuno li difende senza trasformarli in superstizione, ma anche senza svenderli come se fossero un optional. Chi custodisce un oggetto nel tempo, spesso custodisce in realta la propria versione di quell'oggetto, e quando la materia cambia senza clamore, il rischio non e la rottura, e l'assuefazione: ci si abitua a chiamare uguali cose che stanno diventando diverse. E qui che il paradosso smette di essere un gioco e diventa un dispositivo morale, perche obbliga a chiedersi chi abbia il diritto di dire "e la stessa", con quale criterio e con quale interesse, e quanto a lungo quel criterio resti condiviso. E costringe anche a riconoscere che un nome, quando sopravvive alla materia, non e soltanto un'etichetta: e un impegno, una promessa di continuita che non viene mai firmata una volta per tutte, ma rinnovata a ogni gesto che la contraddice o la conferma. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The middle class has become the true battleground of contemporary capitalism: not to be annihilated, but to be kept in a state of functional tension-solid enough to produce income and tax revenue, insecure enough to never stop spending. On one side, marketing woos it with the precision of an… algorithm that knows tastes, habits, vulnerabilities, and sleep schedules; on the other, the tax authority measures its payroll regularity as the most reliable form of supply, with withholding at the source, estimated payments, surtaxes, and true-ups that arrive as punctually as paychecks, but with the side effect of tightening the room for maneuver until it is reduced to a corridor. In between, the middle class holds the country together: it works, pays, consumes, raises children, sustains domestic demand; and precisely for this reason it is the preferred target of those who sell belonging and those who collect stability.Marketing knows its psychology better than its bank does: it knows that the greatest fear is not poverty but the loss of status, the idea of sliding backward without any longer being able to "make it" with decorum; and so it modulates seduction into non-negotiable "little yeses"-a "pro" plan that promises efficiency, the slightly superior car "for safety," the device upgrade "to work better," the weekend "to unplug and restart"-all justified by a vocabulary of good reasons that never asks for the full price, because it spreads it, hides it, fragments it. Meanwhile the tax authority does not seduce: it levies. It does not ask for emotional assent, but for accounting assent; and since evasion is not an option for those who live on fixed income, the pressure is unloaded onto the after-tax period, that is, onto that residue of freedom that remains at the end of the month and becomes the true field to be conquered by the market. This is where the combined strategy works: the net take-home pay determines capacity, advertising determines the use of that capacity, and autopay guarantees its continuity.The result is a cultural paradox: one works with constancy, contributes with discipline, consumes with apparent moderation-and yet lives with the feeling of not being able to absorb the unexpected, of having to ask the bank for "oxygen" for every boiler breakdown, extra servicing, or unanticipated tax. The bank, which knows the statistics of normality well, does not finance poverty and does not pamper wealth: it offers bridges to the middle class-credit lines, micro-installments, cards that "spread it out," "peace-of-mind" loans-because the ideal customer is neither the free one nor the desperate one; it is the one who stays in balance with debt without ever extinguishing it. And so the dignity of work finds itself wedged into the dignity of paying on time, which is a lesser, defensive dignity, with little narrative to it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This is not a book about success stories. It isn't, and that is a deliberate choice. There already exists an abundant production of texts celebrating extraordinary rises, flashes of genius, charismatic leaders, or favorable contexts turned into once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Bookstores an…d online platforms are filled with manuals promising the formula for rapid growth, biographies recounting the path of great entrepreneurs, and essays explaining how to spot winning opportunities. These are stimulating reads, but they share an obvious limitation: every success story is unique. What works in one context rarely works in another, and turning an unrepeatable event into a universal rule risks misleading more than helping. Rich Dad Poor Dad, The 18 Rules of Success, Trade in a Day, Wealth in 4 Weeks, Financial Freedom in Two Afternoons a Month. That is not the focus here. Billion-dollar success stories are episodic, just as spectacular collapses are, but in between lies a whole spectrum: people and small businesses that, with some discipline and a few clear rules, can manage not to end up in default.Every victory has its own combination, difficult to replicate: the right timing, the right people in the right place, favorable economic conditions, a spark of intuition, and sometimes even a significant dose of luck. The sum of these factors may generate a positive outcome, but it does not constitute a model to follow word for word. That is why, viewed critically, books about success resemble rhetorical exercises more than operational tools. They can inspire, but rarely do they provide transferable rules for real life.Failure, on the other hand, repeats itself with surprisingly consistent patterns. It doesn't matter whether we are speaking of a multinational corporation, a small family business, or an individual managing their household finances: the dynamics that lead to collapse share common traits, recognizable and often predictable. The inability to read signs of change, overconfidence in one's own convictions, superficial risk management, the accumulation of unsustainable debt-these elements recur again and again. The names and industries change, but the underlying patterns look the same.Studying failure, then, is not an exercise in morbid curiosity but an act of pragmatism. Looking directly at what went wrong for others allows us to draw practical lessons, often far more useful than celebrating victories. Not because there exists any formula for total protection against mistakes, but because knowing the mistakes already made reduces the likelihood of repeating them. Other people's failures become a kind of preventive map: a set of warning signals anyone can learn to recognize.It is important to be clear: a book that speaks more of failure than of success does not set out to offer definitive solutions or guaranteed shortcuts. Its purpose is to provide a mirror. A mirror reflecting mistakes already made-sometimes by giants that seemed untouchable, other times by families or small business owners forced to confront the fragility of their balance sheets. This mirror does not serve to ridicule those who have fallen, nor to pass quick judgments. Failure carries concrete consequences: pain, loss, frustration. For that reason, it deserves respect. And it is precisely from respect that the possibility of learning can arise. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Paradox of Theseus Revisited Through a Management Lens.The Greek philosopher and priest Plutarch recounts that, on the return from Crete, the ship with which Theseus had taken the Athenian youths away from the labyrinth was not left to the ordinary fate of useful things, but kept back th…e way a symbol is kept back: Athens held it in harbor, displayed it, named it, and above all maintained it, replacing what rotted with what could bear, as one does with everything one wishes eternal while knowing it to be vulnerable. In that continuous maintenance - a plank changed, a beam reinforced, a mast rebuilt - the most unsettling fact occurred, because no single gesture was revolutionary and yet, over time, every gesture was decisive: with no precise day one could point to, every original element disappeared, and the civic relic remained, intact in name, altered in substance, ready to demand an accounting from whoever looked upon it. The heart of the story lies precisely in this slowness: not in the storm that snaps, but in the salt that consumes, in the patience with which a city cultivates its own memory the way one cultivates a public good, until that public good also becomes a conceptual trap. Because to preserve a ship does not mean merely to repair it; it also means deciding what one truly intends by "that ship," and deciding this without declaring it, letting the agreement remain implicit, until the implicit begins to weigh more than the timber.At that point the question became inevitable, and for that very reason dangerous, because it is not a question for a shipyard but a question for conscience: is it still the ship of Theseus, if what composes it is no longer what once composed it? Identity, when one interrogates it, reveals itself to be less a fact and more a pact; and pacts, as we know, last as long as someone recognizes them, as long as someone tells them, as long as someone defends them without turning them into superstition, but also without selling them off as though they were an optional extra. Whoever keeps an object over time often keeps, in reality, their own version of that object, and when matter changes without clamor, the risk is not rupture, it is habituation: one gets used to calling equal things that are becoming different. It is here that the paradox stops being a game and becomes a moral device, because it forces one to ask who has the right to say "it's the same," by what criterion and with what interest, and how long that criterion remains shared. And it also compels one to recognize that a name, when it outlives matter, is not merely a label: it is a commitment, a promise of continuity that is never signed once and for all, but renewed with every gesture that contradicts it or confirms it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. IL PARADOSSO DI TESEO RILETTO ALLA LUCE DEL MANAGEMENT.Il filosofo e sacerdote greco Plutarco racconta che, al ritorno da Creta, la nave con cui Teseo aveva sottratto i giovani ateniesi al labirinto non fu lasciata al destino ordinario delle cose utili, ma trattenuta come si trattiene un sim…bolo: Atene la tenne in porto, la mostro, la nomino, e soprattutto la mantenne, sostituendo cio che marciva con cio che reggeva, come si fa con tutto cio che si desidera eterno pur sapendolo vulnerabile. In quella manutenzione continua - una tavola cambiata, una trave rinforzata, un albero ricostruito - avvenne il fatto piu inquietante, perche nessun gesto era rivoluzionario e tuttavia, nel tempo, ogni gesto fu decisivo: senza un giorno preciso da indicare, ogni elemento originario scomparve, e la reliquia civile resto, intatta nel nome, mutata nella sostanza, pronta a chiedere conto a chi la guardava. Il cuore del racconto sta proprio in questa lentezza: non nella tempesta che spezza, ma nel sale che consuma, nella pazienza con cui una citta coltiva la propria memoria come si coltiva un bene pubblico, finche quel bene pubblico diventa anche una trappola concettuale. Perche conservare una nave non significa soltanto ripararla, significa anche decidere che cosa si intende davvero per "quella nave", e decidere questo senza dichiararlo, lasciando che l'accordo resti implicito, finche l'implicito comincia a pesare piu del legno.A quel punto la domanda divenne inevitabile, e proprio per questo pericolosa, perche non e una domanda da cantiere ma una domanda da coscienza: e ancora la nave di Teseo, se cio che la compone non e piu cio che la componeva? L'identita, quando la si interroga, si rivela meno un fatto e piu un patto; e i patti, si sa, durano finche qualcuno li riconosce, finche qualcuno li racconta, finche qualcuno li difende senza trasformarli in superstizione, ma anche senza svenderli come se fossero un optional. Chi custodisce un oggetto nel tempo, spesso custodisce in realta la propria versione di quell'oggetto, e quando la materia cambia senza clamore, il rischio non e la rottura, e l'assuefazione: ci si abitua a chiamare uguali cose che stanno diventando diverse. E qui che il paradosso smette di essere un gioco e diventa un dispositivo morale, perche obbliga a chiedersi chi abbia il diritto di dire "e la stessa", con quale criterio e con quale interesse, e quanto a lungo quel criterio resti condiviso. E costringe anche a riconoscere che un nome, quando sopravvive alla materia, non e soltanto un'etichetta: e un impegno, una promessa di continuita che non viene mai firmata una volta per tutte, ma rinnovata a ogni gesto che la contraddice o la conferma. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
