Ennio Montesi speaking at the presentation Michael Hammer's book "Italy, Vatican State"
Jesi (Ancona) - "Without secularism, democracy is an empty box." reads the book by Michele Martelli " Italy, Vatican State " published by Fazi Editore, which will be presented Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 18 at the Palace of Conventions in Jesi in Corso Matteotti 19. This cultural event is also important to highlight the anniversary of the historic 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy on 17 March 1861. The long-awaited event is organized in collaboration with the Centro Studi Libertarian "Luigi Fabbri" - FAI , the library Ithaca Jesi and Fazi Editore. The presentation will also take the atheist writer Ennio Montesi which requested political asylum in Sweden because the Italian government's forces in public places, discrimination, religious-political symbol of the crucifix-Vatican Catholic fundamentalism. Ennio Montesi (latest book, "Stories for not crazy " Mursia Publisher ) has recently been the focus of controversy and the "target" of the Northern League, which launched the writer a kind of fatwa for his writings and as a citizen "is not Catholic." Michele Martelli, philosopher and writer, collaborated on the magazine MicroMega and the University of Urbino has taught Philosophy of History, is Professor of Moral Philosophy and director of the master inter-"Management Ethics and Governance of Organizations."
" Italy, Vatican State " , preface by Ferruccio Pinotti , addresses the dispute over the moral issue that sees the bearers of truth absolute subservient to Reason of State Vatican. The book denounces the ambiguity of the ancient Church of Rome, which promotes a moral AC strongly committed to manage the keys of power, while those promises of paradise. Growing is the interference Vatican in the public sphere and the intention to impose its imprimatur to the institutions of all levels, to the point that even the EU's refusal to mention the European Constitution in the "Christian roots", repeatedly claimed by the two popes Karol Wojtyla and Joseph Ratzinger, would be the sign of the loss of the continent's identity. Investigating these pressures, the author explains how over the centuries in the West claim the modern concept of the secular and democratic state has coincided with the apparent opposition of the Catholic hierarchy and incessant. From popular sovereignty to the separation of powers, the rule of law with the principle of tolerance to the freedom of science in the modern Europe has marginalized the theocratic claims of the Church of Rome. In examining more closely the Italian case and the relations between the state and the Vatican, with the brilliant narrative device to rewrite some articles of the Constitution of 1948 by following Catholic dogmas and precepts, Martelli demonstrates the absence of secularism and the triumph of the clerical and strategies confessional transform Italian democracy in the most fundamentalist of autocracies.
studies Michele Martelli in the past have focused on the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, Antonio Gramsci, and numerous authors of the twentieth century, addressing some of the most debated issues and philosophical-political events of the last century. In recent years he has worked on issues of great relevance by developing the idea of \u200b\u200ba philosophy aimed at a radical critique of dogmatism and religious fundamentalism in general and any form of absolutism that threatens the freedom of thought, civil rights, the democratic institutions and peace among peoples. The current work of an essayist is particularly addressed to the defense of secularism, political interventionism against the ecclesiastical hierarchy and the Vatican.
