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Cain’s Act - Hardcover

Recalcati, Massimo

 
9781787703971: Cain’s Act
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1787703975 ISBN 13: 9781787703971
Verlag: Europa Compass, 2022

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An urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality.

“Recalcati explores the most fundamental of questions―for Cain, Abel, and every human being: can we believe in love?”―La Stampa

What lies at the foundation of human history and life in a society? According to Massimo Recalcati, it is not the sentiment of love for one’s neighbour preached by Jesus in the Gospels but the brutal hatred and violence depicted in the story of Cain and Abel.

As timely as it is brilliant, this essay examines Cain’s murderous act through the lens of psychoanalysis, showing how delusions of self-sufficiency and individual perfection lie at the deepest roots of fear and violence in our societies.

True completeness can only be achieved through others―not despite them. This, argues Recalcati, is the lesson of Cain, one that resonates powerfully in our time.

Praise for Recalcati’s A Night in Gethsemane:

“A book that reads in less than two hours but stays with you forever.”―Il Foglio

“Lively and sharp . . . An invitation to look positively at the loneliness of human experience.”―Lettera

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst and author who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona. His numerous books have been translated in several languages. His latest book to appear in English was The Night in Gethsemane (Europa, 2020). He lives and works in Milan.



Will Schutt is the author of Westerly (the Yale Series of Younger Poets) and translator, most recently, of Carlo and Renzo Piano’s Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty (Europa, 2020), Andrea Marcolongo’s The Ingenious Language (Europa, 2019) and Starting from Scratch (Europa, 2022), and My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti.

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Verlag
Europa Compass
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1787703975
ISBN 13 
9781787703971
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
96
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