Il bosco interiore

In the crisis we are immersed in – economic, cultural and sanitary – we all end up with a feeling of precarity and helpless, eager to run away from a reality and a society that seem to burden us. Challenging ourselves with the harshness of Nature and of the «wild» seems a good way to recover ourselves, as proved by the success of novels and movies inspired by this choice. Not everyone remembers that was the American philosopher Thoreau the one who gave back to the “untamed” life its value.

Leonardo Caffo asked himself if, beyond the myth, Thoreau still has something present to communicate to each one of us, about the sense of life, the human relationships, the work, the social and politic forms of participation, the environment. He rereads the issues of the contemporaneity in the light of the teachings of the American philosopher, who has already inspired the nonviolent thought of Gandhi, Martin Luther King and the Beat generation. And he explains to us how his thought continues to be a source of inspiration that makes us live in a different way.