POLITICS AND PROFESSIONS IN RELATION - eBook

**Preface by Luciana La Stella** The phenomenology of violent acts emerging from the social context and, in particular, from the dynamics of relationships between genders, currently seems to express an enigmatic qualitative remodulation of the relationship between the sexes, often marked by antagonistic accentuations, almost unleashing a true civil war between the sexes, fueled by the pervasive and tenacious media horizon that envelops us. It is not feasible, in today's entirely "post-modern" contemporaneity, to bypass such conflictuality by retreating into an individual solipsistic and introverted withdrawal, nor into the ivory tower of sexual and/or gender separatism. We are accustomed to calling "relationship" an experience to be considered in the entirety of its possible qualitative correlates, establishing (and/or revealing) intentions, attitudes, projects, and values that daily substantiate our habitual professional activities in the social sphere, from which we cannot withdraw without losing our humanity. The defection from the relationship (the steresis of ontology) can only result in the impossibility of communication, confining humans (whoever they may be) in a noisy and indecipherable Babel, gasping in the blindness of the most diverse and heterogeneous languages. There is no room for doubt whether there can exist, for everyone and for each individual, a different modus vivendi, more desirable than the current ones and capable of transcending the narrowness of a gender-consciousness towards the common participation in a richer and more rewarding species-consciousness, thus to the universality of the human family: the koinonia as a social chain, starting from a family where spouses intimately involved in the same life project freely maintain, day by day, choice by choice, and in respect of their identities and roles, mutual bonds of solidarity, in a climate of emotional and affective sincerity (as well as economic). The outcomes of gender segregation cannot otherwise avoid being dystopian and heralds of physical, psychological, and moral violence. Author: Ercole De Angelis