Liberation 08/12/2006
The statements of Bush and Italian newspapers
Fascism (if anything) is a Christian
Piero Sansonetti
Bush says we are at war with Islamic fascists. Almost all the Italian newspapers echoed, appaludono. The Corriere della Sera "- which is not the organ of some xenophobic party, or a religious community and Christian ultratradizionalista lefevriana, but is the leading Italian newspaper, the most authoritative, and is among four or five major newspapers and most prestigious in Europe - publishes an article by end of Magdi Allam, who with the usual balance, and that is his sobirietà, explains that Bush has been far too kind to the Muslim mob, and that we Italians should put an end to the fish in a barrel, and we should all put the helmet to prevent new Hitler attach themselves to the West. Allam, you know, between Western and fundamentalist Christians is one of the ringleaders, and yet, if you read "Free" or "Journal" Magdi understand that will not make it on to be the most extreme. The "Journal", Paolo Guzzanti writes: "For Muslims they hate us for who we are and represent in our house, they hate women who are not slaves or mute, they hate democracy, technology and art, do not know what the story because in their minds there is the element that synchronic for us is represented by the passing of the centuries. For them, everything is flat, everything is for them to be paid blood ...». In spite of this prose
reactionary and racist, even Guzzanti makes it to win the race of the most extreme. The palm tree, as usual, goes to Victor Felts. Never mind the text of his article, we simply quote the title to the entire page: "In the hands of fools. Islam wants us all dead. And the left is doing? The terrorists released from prison, Italian is the illegal immigrants, who still stops suicide bombers, dismantling the 007. "
Let us pause a moment. Reasoning on only two of the many topics that are being (and which arouse in us a little 'bit of anger and a' rage). The first topic for consideration is this very original definition invented by Bush: Islamic fascists. The accostamnento between fascimso and Islam. It 'absolutely unfounded. And 'the fruit of the usual failure of Western policy to look outside their own world and our own agenda. Fascism has nothing to do with Islam, and has nothing to do with the Arab world and its culture. Fascism (in fact the Nazi-fascism) is a phenomenon quite Western European and imagined, built and perfected by the big bourgeoisie in Europe, unhindered by the Catholic Church tolerated for many years, even by liberals, and ended with a spin on itself of Western civilization that has reached the brink of collapse and its end, and has led humanity to the brink of barbarism and disaster. And 'no point turn around the question: Fascism and Nazism affect us and only us, not other peoples. The Shoah we did, we middle-class Europeans, the Arabs and Islam nothing to do with anything. We must mourn and vergorna of horror and death that, and it is unlawful to project our feelings of guilt about the innocent people and strangers. Just as it is totally illegitimate to approach the Nazi-fascism, understood as "absolute evil" to a religion. Anyway, if you were to just pull over fascism in religion, we are sorry to say, but the only religion that has seen its hierarchy, its "Church", fascism has been involved with the Christian religion. Fascism is not Muslim and if anything is a Christian. Second
riflesione: Felt feltristi approach and the mysterious assassination attempt foiled by the British to the fact that in Italy you want to give the nationality and the vote to immigrants. The two things are not even distantly related. As demonstrated, moreover, the facts. To example the fact, regrettable that some of the alleged terrorists are inglesissimi boys, blond and eyes azzurrro-sea. What we do: we raise the citizenship to all persons under 25 years? Or to those who do not give evidence proved to be Christians, and possibly right?
Finally, a general observation. This reactionary and conservative intellectuals - whose thinking is currently the prevailing thought in the media in Italian - can build two flags. The first is Christianity and the second is the West. They say: we must defend the Christian roots of Europe, and dell'IItalia, and we must defend the position, culture and tradition of Western and pro-American.
We have many doubts about these two statements. We put them by for a moment. But what enters Articles by Allam, or Guzzanti, or felt (and many others) with the Christian culture and teaching? Nothing. As we read the Gospel, we are sure of one thing: if Jesus Christ met this editorial on the street, after reading their articles, suspend for a moment its being non-violent (as made famous in the temple that day, with merchants ) and whisk them blood!
Not only that, but if any of them - escaped the wrath of Christ - tried to bring his readers in the preparation of a major American newspaper ("The New York Times or the Los Angeles Times, "or the" Boston Globe ", etc.) do not know whether to laugh or take the managing editor if they kicked ass. Certainly, no newspaper on the American liberal have never appeared in the articles of this kind. Also because - beyond the thought of Bush - the American liberal intellectuals consider those invectives pure fascism, and in some U.S. states may even end up on the desk of a judge, on charges of incitement to racial hatred, that there is forbidden .
Ansa 12/08/2006
Venice Film Festival 2006 Award
Bianchi Marco Bellocchio
ROME - Marco Bellocchio Prize Goes to 'Pietro Bianchi 2006. This was decided by the national executive of the SNGCI, the National Union of Journalists Italian film that traditionally gives the Bianchi in Venice during the Venice Film Festival, in collaboration with the Biennale and the direction of the festival.
September 8 next delivery to the Lido, the screening of the Sala Pasinetti Palazzo del Cinema for a film chosen by the Bellocchio: 'The Devil in the Flesh' with Maruschka Detmers, accepted in 1986 as a film and scandal among the most underestimated in the work of the director, made available to Venice by Istituto Luce, a chance for the Union, also to remember that Leo Pescarolo producer of that film was.
The White, last year awarded to the biggest names in criticism and journalism to highlight the professional value but also the difficulties in a publishing world increasingly attentive to the quality of content, is the recognition with which the film journalists traditionally celebrated in Venice the best players in the Italian cinema. A prize to which the Union is particularly fond of because it is named in memory of a great critic and journalist.
The prize was awarded in the years to actors like Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi and Sophia Loren, as a producer Dino De Laurentiis and Goffredo Lombardo, but remote, historically, especially by authors such as Mario Soldati, Cesare Zavattini, Alessandro Blasetti, Renato Castellani, Luigi Zampa, Alberto Lattuada, Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Giuseppe De Santis, Francesco Rosi, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Luigi Magni, Carlo Lizzani, Bernardo Bertolucci. Among big names such as Age and Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi D 'Amico and Peppino Rotunno, has also retired Michelangelo Antonioni, in 1946, when he still had not gone behind the camera, was among the other co-founder of SNGCI.
Republic 08/12/2006
The ideas of a great physicist obsessed with the metaphysical
The essay "Nature and Psyche"
"The lesson plan" is a dreamlike tale
the quantum of research fourth dimension
One of his most important work was on Kepler
He Jung as a therapist and friend, both of their discoveries parallel
scientist belongs to the amazing elite formed in Vienna in the early 900
Eugenio Scalfari
It was released a few months ago for the types of Adelphi-Scientific Library's book entitled Wolfgang Pauli Psyche and Nature (pp. 170, € 24). The title is fascinating even if in recent times of books devoted to that theme libraries have received stacks. I do not know the sales data, the argument on the other hand is not one easy to general public. The author's name, however, is in itself in this case the guarantee of a quality that separates many of the other leagues that have been recently devoted to the problem of two cultures: the humanistic and scientific, objective knowledge and the subjective , innate ideas and their imperfect realization in the empirical world and finally put it all existence and cultural metaphysics or his final overthrow. Wolfgang Pauli
belongs to the amazing scientific elite formed in Vienna in the early decades of the twentieth century, and continuing to some extent by changing the revolution effected by Einstein in the field of theoretical physics, worked physics quantum. The theoretical quantum physics shocked even questioning the essence of the matter, assuming an intangible structure formed by waves from dynamic fields, figures, overturning the principles of causation and the contradiction by introducing brand new principles as complementarity, quaternity , synchronicity. Is it any wonder that during these very sophisticated calculations reappeared metaphysics?
Not all scientists of the revolutionary generation yielded to the temptation to weave together psychological research and experimental research in the constant attempt to arrive at a single explanation and a single key to solve this "mysterious" and the "numinous" that surround us. Among them were many discussions and arguments about who came to undermine friendship tested by time.
Pauli was the most intensely engaged in the search for that key. I was going to write about the philosophers' stone and would not have had a point to recall the dream of the alchemists of three and four centuries ago who devoted themselves to find out the proceedings to turn baser metals into gold. The basis of the most magical and scientific research was still a dream to get to the essence of truth, the dissolution of the mystery, the unity of knowledge.
Pauli's life was brief: he was born in 1900 and died in '58. He had many vicissitudes. Through long periods of depression, tried to overcome them with alcohol and then with the help of psychological therapy. It was then that he met Jung, as a therapist, and above all as a master of ideas and research in parallel with her even if conducted in a very different field. He was shocked and concerned, the intellectual exchange between those two minds these fruits unexpected and somewhat precious.
The editor of the book we are discussing, Joseph Trautteur, has said a dense texts of Pauli editorial note in which emphasizes the originality of thought of the scientist and his harmony with that of Jung and cites two amazing songs that I want to mention because they give too the sense of the whole book.
"Experience has shown that both light and matter behave as particles separate first, second waves. This paradoxical result has made it necessary to give up - in terms of atomic sizes - to a causal description of nature in the usual space-time continuum, replacing it with invisible fields of probability in multidimensional spaces that are properly the stage reached by our current knowledge. " Says the editor of the book: "Paul? No, Jung, "and continues the quote:" The division and the reduction of symmetry, here is the heart of the beast! Moreover, the division is an ancient attribute of the Devil. If the two rival God, Christ and the Devil, they knew that they've become so symmetrical. " Comment Trautteur yet, "Jung? No, Pauli. "
But to agree with the quote means, I will report that another take from a letter by Pauli to his friend Markus Fierz in December of '47, when he wrote his historical essay on Kepler, one of his most interesting of the not strictly focused on the issues of nuclear physics.
"I continued my journey in the seventeenth century. The fact that Newton has as it placed the space-time at the right hand of God, and that the vacancy of the Son that he had driven from there, it's very tempting the history of the Spirit. It took an extraordinary effort to pull then down again space and time from Olympus. This task has been made artificially more cumbersome philosophy of Kant's attempt to block access to human reason in this Olympus. It is therefore particularly interesting to me the era in which space and time were not there, namely the run-up to this fateful operation. Hence my study of Kepler. "
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Hence, in fact, his study of Kepler. The heliocentric Kepler, Copernicus and Kepler, a continuation of the "links", so to speak, of Galileo. With a difference background between the German and Italian: the latter never mix or cultivated in parallel with experimental research inferences religious and even denied that there could be a metaphysical relationship between astronomy and theology. Kepler unlike his heliocentrism extensively involved with the theology and in particular with the dogma of the Trinity which made even the motivating force of the same cosmogonic structure. This mixture between two worlds - one of the world and one of the overworld - is the real reason that pushes Pauli studying Kepler. He explains himself on the other hand the very first pages of the text and those pages that you can understand not only the thought of Pauli but, through it, the tendency inherent in quantum science to get in search of the "fourth dimension".
There, using the language of the same Pauli, is the heart of the beast.
This raises the question of what point is the bridge between sensory perception and ideas, between ideas and nature. The answer is inevitably that of Plato: the correlation between pre-existing internal images in the human psyche and the external world objects and their properties.
And here's the Jungian influence, besides Plato, the thought of Paul: the existence of a meta-physical world dominated by the original and archetypal images that serve as that bridge between sensory perceptions and ideas, a necessary precondition to the formation of a scientific theory of nature.
arrived at these conclusions that go far beyond the whole evolution of experimental science, from Newton to Einstein and at the same undisputed master of quantum physics, Niels Bohr, Pauli must have had a surge of too who dared to question the foundational canons of science and its rational procedures of modern thought.
fact is he to felt with a conclusion that seems to reverse a sharp: "But we must not fall into the trap of giving this a priori knowledge to the conscious mind and reconnect to expressing ideas defined in rational terms."
try to interpret this errata. Pauli attempt here to make an entirely abstract separating the "self" from the ego, the unconscious by the conscious mind, the latter reserving the right and duty to continue to seek and to express in rational terms, despite the bursting of the insights of symbolic and archetypal images that emerge from the region and shadow of the unconscious self.
operation is sustainable? In some ways it seems a Cartesian remembrance that recalls the clear separation between the res cogitans and res extensa. Only in that Descartes was to define the body than the mind, the instincts of the body with respect to the rationality of the mind. That distinction was later overturned by subsequent philosophical and scientific advances. Descartes was the real core of his philosophical thought, that "I think therefore I am 'which acquired a truth of permanent validity revived two centuries later by the' being there" Heidegger and founding of the autonomy of individual conscience.
paulienne The distinction between the innate and intuitive images of the unconscious and the rational processes of scientific knowledge and experimental rather represent an attempt to reintroduce the Platonism in the path of modern science. A regression that the errata paulienne unhealthy and indeed makes it more evident.
Incorrect corrige we mentioned is only an apparent reverse of Pauli. In reality, the scientist still part of quantum physics by the results of which came even to his credit, research on those, on the ms, the atom on the composition and function of the particles that compose it.
All of these studies and these findings justify, at least in the eyes of Pauli, the hypothesis of Jungian synchronicity. That is, in fields that are not necessarily relevant to the physical world significant events occur that the physical world can not ignore even if it can not fit them in its fees and its laws. These events would move in a tenet outside of space-time, outside the principle of non-contradiction, outside of causation, outside of the second law of thermodynamics and the rising trend of entropy. Outside the particle conception of matter.
This "outside" would be objective consistency and, taken as a whole, would create a fourth dimension but not against the side of the three dimensions of space-time, however, that it would be profoundly affected.
What about this theory that I took the liberty of naming "fourth dimension" although Paul never uses this definition? Those who have done a totalitarian ideology of rationality will be eager to show thumbs down against the ground (good?) reason that it has no experimental verification, and then for scientific culture must be considered non-existent. Indeed distortionary. Rather unscientific and regressive.
I do not think that this is a proper rational position. The reason is the only light we have. A dim and flickering light that illuminates in front of us and behind us an area of \u200b\u200bthe infinitesimal space and time. All around
remains dark. We move forward, learning new truths that partly destroyed and partly conglobano ancient truths. Overall, the space-time from our wick is lit the same.
And yet we can not exclude that in the vast darkness around us there are essences that our minds can not intercept. He can not for now, but perhaps will in the future. Or never be able to intercept those essences as being on the wavelength can not be perceived by us and not decipherable.
Our mind is the product of an intellectual tool material. It 's the music that emanates from a piano. If the piano is broken, the music stops. If the piano is out of tune music is dissonant. So the mind is intimately connected to the instrument that produces it, and this in turn is part of a world body that interacts with it.
This is much or little we know about ourselves, our subjectively by observing others ontologically similar and observing ourselves to the limits and capabilities that our reflective mind possesses.
That said, all theories are legitimate, some are worthy of consideration. Remaining meta-physical conceptions and as such do not leave the area of \u200b\u200bshadow and mystery.
short, extremely complex and fascinating work of literature, perhaps carried out under the influence of alcohol so you can see the excitement and creative visionary, almost trance state and an unknown force that speaks through the author writes. In short, a form of "mania".
All of this work is summarized. One can only sketch out the form and that is what I tried to do that here.
I know the editor of Adelphi, Roberto Calasso, and I am sure that the decision to publish this book so fascinating but so difficult has been taken particularly in the light of this lesson plan. Were it only for the essay on Kepler perhaps the volume would not have seen the light in the Italian edition. The lesson plan has a strong stylistic density dream, a cultural and narrative surprises. Calasso so congenial as to assume an immediate love affair. In addition it is an enigmatic text par excellence. In some pages the echoes of Kafka's Metamorphosis , in others the Bulgakov's Master and Margarita . E echo Rosicrucian more than noticeable. So this was
Wolfgang Pauli and his mind. Because in reality the lyrics are not the story told from the mind of Pauli Pauli mind.
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