The difficulties of today, the possibilities of tomorrow
The latest book by Giulio Sapelli looks at the present to understand how to revive a society founded on the common good
Pandemic, globalisation and (new) perspectives for social development: those who wish to better understand what is happening are faced by three concepts brimming with significance and complexity. Yet, these are concepts which everyone should ponder on and add their individual viewpoint to. This is precisely what Giulio Sapelli endeavours to do in his 2020. Pandemia e Resurrezione (“2020: pandemic and resurrection”), his latest literary effort, comprising little more than a hundred pages but each packed with meaning.
Sapelli’s book does not attempt to predict the financial and social impact of what is happening, but provides instead a few useful elements that could help us understand outlines and reasons which lie beyond the virus itself.
According to Sapelli, the pandemic and its management are the bitter fruit of society and of a globalised financial system, as well as of the retreat of politics, state and public spirit. Yet, the author’s perspective is positive (hence the inclusion of “resurrection” in the title). Sapelli explains that what has, again, become acutely important is the value of concepts and practices related to the “common good”, understood as something “precious” that “must be placed centre stage,” while “mere personal profits, both private and national, must perish.” He defines an important step to be taken through “the end of market domination and the acknowledgement of work as the main means to ensure social equality, welfare, safety and justice.” All this while also considering the need to grapple with the instruments made available by the modern era. This is why, continues the author, “innovation, in global terms […] must extend from technology to morality, it is the only path to salvation we have.”
Giulio Sapelli’s argument retains all its charm and depth even if it is not always easy to follow. Reading 2020. Pandemia e Resurrezione (“2020: pandemic and resurrection”), is not very easy, but nonetheless something to undertake if we want to acquire some original tools to better understand the present.
In the first pages of the book we find a beautiful and important quote, taken from Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, which reads: “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
2020. Pandemia e Resurrezione (“2020: pandemic and resurrection”)
Giulio Sapelli
Goware – Guerini e Associati, 2020
The latest book by Giulio Sapelli looks at the present to understand how to revive a society founded on the common good
Pandemic, globalisation and (new) perspectives for social development: those who wish to better understand what is happening are faced by three concepts brimming with significance and complexity. Yet, these are concepts which everyone should ponder on and add their individual viewpoint to. This is precisely what Giulio Sapelli endeavours to do in his 2020. Pandemia e Resurrezione (“2020: pandemic and resurrection”), his latest literary effort, comprising little more than a hundred pages but each packed with meaning.
Sapelli’s book does not attempt to predict the financial and social impact of what is happening, but provides instead a few useful elements that could help us understand outlines and reasons which lie beyond the virus itself.
According to Sapelli, the pandemic and its management are the bitter fruit of society and of a globalised financial system, as well as of the retreat of politics, state and public spirit. Yet, the author’s perspective is positive (hence the inclusion of “resurrection” in the title). Sapelli explains that what has, again, become acutely important is the value of concepts and practices related to the “common good”, understood as something “precious” that “must be placed centre stage,” while “mere personal profits, both private and national, must perish.” He defines an important step to be taken through “the end of market domination and the acknowledgement of work as the main means to ensure social equality, welfare, safety and justice.” All this while also considering the need to grapple with the instruments made available by the modern era. This is why, continues the author, “innovation, in global terms […] must extend from technology to morality, it is the only path to salvation we have.”
Giulio Sapelli’s argument retains all its charm and depth even if it is not always easy to follow. Reading 2020. Pandemia e Resurrezione (“2020: pandemic and resurrection”), is not very easy, but nonetheless something to undertake if we want to acquire some original tools to better understand the present.
In the first pages of the book we find a beautiful and important quote, taken from Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, which reads: “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
2020. Pandemia e Resurrezione (“2020: pandemic and resurrection”)
Giulio Sapelli
Goware – Guerini e Associati, 2020