La ferita dell’altro. Economia e relazioni umane

Already a classic work of civil economics, this essay traces a path within modernity with a view to explicate the anthropological and cultural premises on which contemporary economics and its promises are founded. Economic science, with its promise of a communal life without sacrifice, offers an effective escape route from the contagion of personal relationships. In fact, the crisis that market economy societies are facing is essentially a crisis of human relationships, born out of the illusion that bureaucratic and hierarchical enterprise can allow us to live together while avoiding the risky encounter with the other and their wound.