CHiara Saraceno, sociologist and philosopher, professor in many prestigious institutes, and the journalist Maria Novella De Luca have decided to animate a dialogue that has become an interesting book with a provocative title, The natural family does not exist (Laterza).
Provocative because never as now new governments seem to want to go back in time With the desire to restore a family model that reality has overcome for some time.
Not to mention the nature which, carefully studied in its wonderful variety, offers us examples not compliant with the discipline propagated by the new President of the United States who reiterated in his settlement speech that there are only two genres, point.
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If we observe nature
If the oysters and shrimp could speak they would tell Trump as they are born happily with male attributes and over time they become femalesas well as the peaceful groupers that in the marine abysses exceeded ten years of life they decide to change sex without any Musk satellite coming to check them. Not to mention the hermaphrodite that represent 5 percent of the animal population and most of the vegetable kingdom.
“The natural family does not exist” by Chiara Saraceno (Laterza).
Evolution of the family
But if mine is an ironic excursus, Fortunately, the book-interview of Saraceno and De Luca is instead a deep and very serious examination on the origins of the concept of family and its evolution And it reminds us that “the natural family does not exist, it is a cultural invention. The family, both in its regulatory, institutional form and in the way in which it is practiced, is a historical-social construction, whose forms and content differs in space and time “. And that We cannot speak of a nucleus corresponding to a universal human anthropological structure.
Chiara Saraceno has always studied this crucial node of the company with passion and answers De Luca’s pressing questions starting from our Constitutionwondering even if it is angry regarding the definition of family that has evolved so much in recent decades.
A fascinating journey in our history not only social but also private Because the family is not only an institution but concerns our most intimate path of human beings, our desires and aspirations towards a future free from dogmas and impositions. In the hope that beyond the fashion ideologies “will come – always – cultivated the desire and the ability to take lasting responsibilities towards others, in particular the smallest and most fragile”.
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