Cycle "Solitude and Communion in Religion and Ethics"

The series of meetings announced here aims to explore, through a theoretical and comparative approach, the multiple articulations of solitude within contemporary religious and ethical contexts, bringing into dialogue traditions that have construed “being alone” as an intentional practice of ascesis, introspection, and openness to transcendence with the transformations introduced by digital technologies. Proceeding along a semantic axis that distinguishes being alone as a condition, being lonely as an existential experience, being solitary as a symbolic and cultural posture, and being desolate as a form of relational deprivation and crisis of meaning, the meetings will place these figures in a dialectical relationship with the notion of communion—of clear Christian and Catholic provenance, yet endowed with profound social resonance—by examining its diverse modes of enactment. The inquiry will thus extend to the various forms of sharing, from ritual community to affective participation, from the sharing of word and silence to that of data, images, and mediated presences, in order to analyse how these forms do not simply oppose solitude but rather presuppose it, traverse it, or at times even produce it. Within this framework, the aim is not to set withdrawal against relation, or isolation against belonging, but to understand how, in the age of technological mediation, solitude and communion are mutually redefined, calling for a renewed ethical reflection and a possible rearticulation of their spiritual and social significance.

 

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The calendar may experience alterations.

 

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L’iniziativa è stata realizzata anche grazie al contributo della Direzione generale Educazione, ricerca e istituti culturali del Ministero della Cultura.

 

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