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Moni Ovadia Published by: Einaudi/Stile Libero Extra
www.einaudi.itYear of publication: 2012 978-88-06-21313-8 pages 110 Euro 12,00 |
Madre dignità (2012) - (Mother Dignity) Provocatory, passionate and old fashioned. A pamphlet disserting on the subjects of the scum of the earth, the disinherited, the poor, those excluded from the market, the non-included. They have but one thing to defend: their dignity.Justice, liberty, people's rights, are ideals to which Moni Ovadia has dedicated many of his battles. But dignity precedes them all, it is the foundation without which men, in their concrete daily life, are at the mercy of oppression, slavery, nihilism. This brief book's merit lies precisely in thrusting right before our eyes how risky it is when dignity is trivialized or taken for granted in our common, everyday discourse. Dignity is not dependent on our origins, our social condition, census or ethnic group. It is a universal ethical attribute. A gift of the absolute. Foreigners, rebels, rejects, outlaws, "the scum of the earth" all partake of this gift, which is above all «to honor oneself». Passing from the commentary of monotheism's great sacred texts on to stories of the everyday, to ethical conflicts and the words of the poets, and finally, on to the beautiful "Dignity of the executioner", Ovadia delivers a brief handbook for the abyss opening beneath our feet. Not only in the great events of History, but in the accomplishment of our own daily mission as human beings. |
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