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That is the way this book was born, which from one hand reveals
– very unusually – an inspiration which never looks aged and, on
the other hand, an enormous range of interests. On the contrary,
at first sight these interests can appear even encyclopaedic. In
reality, when you look through, step by step, a page after the
other, you can start to outline an orderly vision of the world
during the new century’s first quinquennial.
"Critica del Nuovo Secolo" (Criticism to the new century)
practically analyzes all the crucial questions of the difficult
opening of the millennium, mainly with an international view,
and with a vision very coherent and unitary. The volume starts
with a sort of de profundis towards the Twentieth
century, as a century in which everything assumed ideological
and political meaning, in a way that today is rejected by the
prevailing conformism. Nevertheless, the death of the
“pan-politicism” immediately resounded as a false alarm, because
it deals with all the topics in a collective interest
perspective that is in a disinterested and passionately
political perspective. In fact, the passage at the end of the
book is the personal statement about a mass psychodrama which
gathered all passions of the past century and which revealed all
the opened questions about society and persons of the newly born
century.
Maybe many ideas look “against the tide”, and some of them are
really like this, above all because of the Author lean to never
rely on the established wisdom, to always be at the edge of the
intellectual research. Even, they are “against the tide” quite
despite the author intention and choice. In actually, he is
pushed by a sincere affection towards the values of the society
in which he lived and in which his generation has been formed,
the one growing up in the middle of the “italian miracle”, but
also a lively interest for politics and a very strong
intellectual dependence. Giuseppe Sacco shows an overpowering
tendency to repudiate the conventional political labels and,
quite in spite himself, he lets out a shadow of personal fight:
on one hand he relates each item to the political-ideological
debate but, on the other hand, he seems to consider the daily
clashes between parties and ideological tribes as totally
lacking of contents.
In these pages the reader will neither find a description and an
interpretation of the world as per Paul Krugman style (just to
mention an example of very high quality) - that is an analysis
starting from a precise political point of view, following a
coherent and passionate conviction - nor a world reduced to a
series of simplified metaphors, like Thomas Friedman (just to
remain in the field of international celebrities). Giuseppe
Sacco, defined by the French review La République des Idée
like an “iconoclaste”, reflects, as in a personal diary, on the
topics which he writes of, sometimes reaching irreversible
conclusions but returning on the same issues, with a different
perspective, every time the reality offers him this opportunity,
without concern neither to keep the point nor to revise his own
statements in view of the pressing events. Practically, he
speaks to the readers without prejudices or by-ends, starting
from the hypothesis that they share the same passion in
understanding the development of contemporary history, the same
desire to comprehend and the same intellectual freedom.
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the interview by Sébastien Fumaroli to Giuseppe Sacco published
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