Narrative Capitals

The Infinite Meekness that Saves Us

Narrative Capitals/10 - The challenge to prevent the transformation of the ideal into ideology by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 14/01/2018 “And now look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners (the people bound inside the cave) are released and disabused of their e...

Authenticity Cannot Be Simulated

Narrative Capitals/9 Childlike spirit is the summit of adult life by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 07/01/2018 “But one had to be talented to be able to age without becoming an adult ". Jacques Brel-Franco BattiatoThe Song of Old Lovers (La canzone dei vecchi amanti) Every organizati...

Fraternity Has Hands and Feet

Narrative Capitals/8 - Founding and continuing without haste, just like equilibrists by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 31/12/2017 When a truly original genius makes its appearance in the world, people make haste to get rid of it. To achieve this goal they have two methods. The first is elim...

The Great Wings of Life

Narrative Capitals/7 - Bad culture chases good existence away by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 24/12/2017 But when Cephas (Peter) came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. (...) But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I s...

The Naked Freedom of the Eyes

Narrative Capitals/6 - What matters is to recognise deceitful prophets and storytellers by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 17/12/2017 “Poverty is the first virtue to be discovered by all founders, and the first one to be forgotten by their successors."  Carlo Maria Martini, Per am...

The Different Power of Desires

Narrative Capitals/5 - There is no more vital guarantee than “freedom-without-guarantees” by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 10/12/2017 «Human desire will forever remain only in its irreducible character (resistant to) any reduction and adaptation. » Jacques Lacan The ...

The Road to Damascus Is Normal

Narrative Capitals/4 - Founding and Saving facts and acts aren’t always striking by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 03/12/2017 “Only infinite love can reduce itself and, in order to become finite, become incarnated in order to love the other, to love the other as a finite other.&r...

On the wounds of the earth

Narrative Capitals/3 - Great collective ideals germinate in seismic areas by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 26/11/2017 «Ci sono le voci. Ci accompagnano. Ci mordono. Ci sussurrano brevissime consolazioni… Ci comandano ci sgridano quasi mai ci lodano gridano nelle notti insonni. ...

Avoiding False Resurrections

Narrative Capitals/2 - Rising again should be learned and is only possible without a contract by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 19/11/2017 “The great writers project their shadow in two directions simultaneously. In one they offer their shadow to their predecessors, in the other to tho...

Reviving the Tree of Ideals

Narrative Capitals/1 - The new beginning of a spiritual and work heritage by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire il 12/11/2017 “We have to work in those intermediate areas between several orders of disciplines, in which exceptional wealth is often accumulated, like at the border of two differe...