Book presentation
STREAMING EVENT | 18.00 H
Speakers of the event are: Roberto Cornelli (professor of Criminology and President of the Unique Guarantee for Equal Opportunities Committee, University of Milan- Bicocca), Carmen Leccardi (professor of Sociology, University of Milan- Bicocca), Milena Santerini (professor of General Pedagogy, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
Hatred seems a dominant reality in human history and the global world, divided and polarized.
Us goes against them, perceived, not as individuals but as an enemy group towards whom prejudice and intolerance grow: foreigners, Hebrew, Gypsies, Muslims, women, homosexuals, fragile people… Is our mind naturally hostile? Is the brain hopelessly programmed to hate? Despite unconscious mechanisms pushing human beings to perceive diversity with fear, neurosciences describe empathetic minds that reflect and identify with others inherently. In reality, hatred policies build up an enemy and manipulate us.
Emotional masses go after fake news and conspiracy theories, positions polarize, violence can be extreme. Forms of collective hatred change continuously: biological racism becomes cultural, antisemitism goes through dangerous metamorphosis, aggressiveness towards women changes.
Nevertheless, emotional prejudice, hatred, aggressiveness, and hostile reactions are not inevitable even in a world where they seem to prevail: it is possible to fight against moral disengagement and discover again the sense of a shared destiny.
PRESENTED BOOK:
Milena Santerini, La mente ostile. Forme dell'odio contemporaneo. Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2021