There are authors who decades later are still relevant for their ideas and directions they suggest. Orwell [cf. POST George Orwell and totalitarianism ] is one of them, and no accident has highlighted the generation grappling with fascism and can inspire even the "generation of the Web."
There are other authors who instead have been milestones, without whose contribution is not who we would understand, but from which it hard to carving out a summons, because all their thinking "generally illuminating" is also dated radically: we can be borne in mind Karl Marx and Wilhelm Reich.
Today I have to say a few words about Emmanuel Mounier (1905-1950), an author of this last group, it should be noted that in an age like our own disaster in which the concept of person has been expunged from the political lexicon. Today groping in the void between conceptions man (pseudo) scientific and political conceptions of "technical" or superficial or "mafia." In this fog in which all cows are gray, some reflections on the themes and authors "fundamentals" can shake the indifference or resignation, although it can not give us recipes that are readily applicable to the political situation of the moment. Mounier, we may collect from an idea to relocate in our area and be treated with care because he produced valuable results, namely the centrality of the concept of person in psychology and especially in politics.
A policy that is not reduced to bureaucratic administration of a partnership between citizens, that is not detached from reality and ideology that is not the nightmare we are mired in reactionary is (and should be) a realistic plan and fair coexistence between people . That is, between individuals considered in their totality and in their value.
in psychological and philosophical Mounier attempted an ethical and spiritual foundation of the concepts of person and character. "My character is not what I am in the psychological sense in which a snapshot would fix all my tasks, all my lines already well marked: the form of a movement directed towards a better future to be pushed" ( trait , 1947, trans. com. Ed Pauline, 1949, repr. 1990: 90). This mingling of psychology and spirituality is the strength and the weakness of all thought of Mounier. Strong point, because, in his way, he speaks of man as a being on the road, a bundle of potential to be developed and expressed. Weakness because today we need to distinguish between what is empirical and scientific and what is the project or proposed to be carried out both on a personal level, both interpersonal and social. Yet, in its way, as in their own way all the thinkers of the current "humanistic" of Marxism and revolutionary strand of Catholicism, Mounier reminds us that people non sono cose, oggetti, “masse”, ma sono realtà cariche di esperienza e quindi sensibili, vulnerabili, capaci di esprimere il meglio o il peggio di sé e quindi da trattare con il massimo rispetto, anche se la politica si occupa dei loro aspetti o dei loro problemi più “materiali”.
Non a caso, in politica Mounier ha promosso con entusiasmo e concretezza dei laboratori di cambiamento che ancor oggi possono essere di stimolo per quei (pochi) politici non rassegnati ad amministrare il presente o a riformarlo nei dettagli. Tentando di definire o circoscrivere il concetto di personalismo, Mounier si è espresso nel 1947 in un linguaggio austero, ma anche toccante. “Questo nome risponde al dilagare dell’ondata totalitarian, it is born, and against it, and emphasizes the defense of the individual against the oppression of the structures. Under this angle viewing is a risk bringing in old individualistic reactions are happy to adorn a new coat of arms: the deliberate intention from the beginning we have associated with 'Community', but a sign is not a complete qualification, and when we remember the highways of our philosophy of man, we see that the person is not a cell, even in a social sense, but a summit, from where all the ways of the world "( What is personalism? , 1947, trad. com. Einaudi, 1948, repr. 1975, pp. 13-14).
Il concetto di “ personalismo comunitario ”, per quanto sviluppato in un altro contesto storico ed in un altro ambito problematico, è proprio l’ingrediente che manca oggi, nel nostro paese, per una rifondazione della politica in senso autenticamente democratico, egualitario e libertario [cfr. il POST Destra e sinistra come categorie politiche ed etiche e il POST Sogni e politica ]. Tutti gli autori che hanno in qualche modo spinto “in avanti” la riflessione politica, liberandola dalle pastoie dell’economicismo, hanno in un modo o nell’altro thought of politics as an effort to meet the needs of people in a society as a community [cf. POST Terzani, a policy of head and heart ].
For this reason, beyond the religious roots of his thought and all its limitations, we decided to include Mounier between "friends and teachers" of our blog.
Gaetano
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