Ira e Tempo
by Peter Sloterdijk is a lucid account of Anger and what it means this feeling. The philosopher starts his mental trip analyzing the meaning of anger in the greek culture, not seen so negatively, for later becoming in our culture a sort of boiling caldrum of the nastiest sentiments of the human beings. In fact, once the solidity of the society over, and many certainties, characterized by political parties for example or different kind of ideologies, (they were called the banks of the resentment) gone forever, every man started to live in a condition of aggressivity his state of orphanage without to know anymore where to let explode his anger; so, it musn't be a big surprise the disharmony of our society; the conflicts in the urbans areas more poor of big cities; anger could also means joining terroristic groups, or trying to discover dangerous certainties that the common society and countries and their systems can't give to them anymore.
Unfortunately, as adds at some point the beloved philosopher, there is not an escapism or a projectuality for a new world with solidities of different nature.
A book for everyone interested at the discovery of a sentiment that should be kept under control.
Highly recommended.
I thank Marsilio for the physical copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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