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The great freedom of the holiday

On the border and beyond/13 - There is more to life than just work and much more than consumption by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 16/04/2017 "Live!  Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.... A new...
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The infinite temple of care

On the border and beyond/12 – The time of a different rhythm and relationships that can change life by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 09/04/2017 'When you were coming down from the quarry this afternoon with the loaded donkey cart, weren't you approached by a stranger? Didn't you give him a ...
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The devouring utility of the futile

On the border and beyond/11 - Rites that consume life and the meaning of work by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 02/04/2017 "Generosity, nobility have disappeared, and with them the spectacular counterpart that the rich reciprocated to the miserable." Georges Bataille, The Notion of Dépense T...
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The Era of Partial Gifts

On the border and beyond/10 - Trust to find the language of reciprocity again by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 26/03/2017 "The obligation of reciprocity in the exchange is not a response to specific powers linked to the objects, but a cosmic conception which presupposes an eternal circulati...
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Let us violate the big taboo

On the border and beyond/9 - For a market also directed by the "invisible hand": the gift by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 19/03/2017 "Even if the world we live in is less violent than any world of the past, this is only one aspect. The other aspect shows exactly the opposite: a frightening...
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But the future is "without merit"

On the border and beyond/8 - Sociability at a good price will run wild and betray us by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 12/03/2017 "To seek, not the fruit of benefits, but the mere doing of them... - this is the mark of a soul that is truly great and good." Seneca, De Beneficiis (English tra...
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Money is Omnipotent

On the border and beyond/7 - The sacred tool that can buy anything. But how long? by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 05/03/2017 «In a world where money can buy anything, money becomes everything.» Giacomo Becattini, From a Private Conversation From the dawn of civilization, money has always h...
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The Easy Gods of the Markets

On the border and beyond/6 - The "catchy tunes" of spiritual illiteracy by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 26/02/2017 «My words are too difficult for you, that's why they sound too easy.» Yehudah ha-Levi, Kuzari The golden rule of mutual benefit is the basis of much good life for human beings...
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Salvation is not a company

by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 19/02/2017 "Workplace spirituality seems to be a significant new management paradigm that business executives can use to improve their organizations by increasing, among others, the levels of organizational commitment, satisfaction and performance of their e...
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The Sad Empires of Merit

On the border and beyond/4 - A "famine of gratitude" fills the world of the damned by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 12/02/2017 "Affliction is by its nature inarticulate. The afflicted silently beseech to be given the words to express themselves. There are times when they are given none..." ...
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The idols are never satiated

On the border and beyond/3 - This market devours life and provides just a little money in return by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 05/02/2017 "(C)apitalism is a pure religious cult, perhaps the most extreme there ever was. Within it, everything only has meaning in direct relation to the cult...
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Resisting the Pied Piper

On the borders and beyond/2 - While the individualistic market triumphs and shakes by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 29/01/2017 "All passions have a phase when they are merely disastrous, when they drag down their victim with the weight of stupidity — and a later, very much later phase when ...
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Break away from creative destruction

On the border and beyond/1 - Between market and gratuitousness, finding new ways by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 22/01/2017 "We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste or our pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves; nevertheless it is only by tha...