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Marzano, Michela
4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Michela Marzano on the loss of trust in Berlusconi
Italy's Prime Minister presented the participants at the Brussels summit with a paper on his government's future austerity measures as requested on Wednesday evening. The EU partners want to believe him but the Italians have lost all trust in his promises, comments the philosopher Michela Marzano in the left-liberal daily La Repubblica: "How can one trust a leadership that hasn't fulfilled a single one of its promises, has told lies and refuted reality? How can they expect the citizens to trust them when confronted with the global crisis of neo-liberalism our prime minister can come up with nothing better than deceiving the Italians with absurd promises to transform the country into a huge corporation and make it flourish like his own firm Fininvest? The Italians don't want to be promised the Earth. They want facts. They want the clear statements that they have lacked for years because it's easier to inspire dreams than confront day-to-day problems. They want honest words that inspire confidence and enable people to see that their outrage has prompted commitment and that their distrust can be replaced with hope."
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Michela Marzano on the lacking self-confidence of Italian women
The Italian parliament passed a law introducing a quota for women in management positions at listed companies on Tuesday. But the law won't help to boost the low self-esteem of Italian women, writes philosopher Michela Marzano in the left-liberal daily La Repubblica: "There seems to have been no change in mentality when the majority of Italian women still see the home as their true calling. When many are still convinced that the best thing a woman can do is marry and have children while the honour of having a career and becoming a public figure is left to the men. ... It may be true that there is a glass ceiling preventing women from climbing to leading positions and top institutions. But it's just as true that women should examine the reasons for their frequently self-inflicted exclusion. It's almost as if by nature women lacked certain key abilities for a successful career: self-confidence, the ability to separate their emotional world from the working world, negotiating and leadership skills."
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Michela Marzano on Sartre and intellectual commitment
Jean-Paul Sartre, the father of existentialism, died 30 years ago today. He was one of France's most eminent philosophers and also played a defining role in political debate. Michela Marzano bemoans the lacking commitment of today's intellectuals and calls in the left-liberal daily La Repubblica for people to model themselves on Sartre once more: "What remains of intellectual engagement if reality belies the ideologies? Even if for years French intellectuals preferred to be 'wrong' with Sartre over being 'right' with Raymond Aron or Albert Camus, history has triumphed over Sartre. The 'end of the ideologies' that Camus predicted has buried the myth … of committed intellectuals. But not even Camus could have predicted the void that defines public debate today. The intellectuals have abdicated for good: some of them have retreated to their ivory towers; others have made compromises with those in power or with the world of show business. No matter how inconvenient Sartre's legacy may be, we must not bury it entirely. The need for each one of us to find our own way to freedom is still present today. As is the call on intellectuals to courageously show commitment to the world in which they live."
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Michela Marzano analyses the cult of the body beautiful
The French philosopher Michela Marzano, has coordinated a 'Dictionary of the body'. She explains this work in an interview conducted by Geneviève Simon. "The idea was to gather about me a certain number of people who are already working on the body and to unite them around a unique project: an attempt to consider the body as a prism for reading today's society and a certain amount of uneasiness that characterises it. ... There exists a real cult of the body, but few people realise that the body we are talking about is an ideal body. The image of the body is proposed as a target everyone can reach although, as an ideal, it is unattainable. We also wanted to show that today we still have yet to extract ourselves from an on-going characteristic of the history of thinking: a dualism between body and mind. As a consequence of this opposition, many philosophers and intellectuals consider that soul, thought and reflection count more than the body, perceived as an obstacle - from an ideological point of view - to attaining knowledge and virtue."
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