Diario filosofico 1973

''There are moments in which the nothingness of things and of ourselves appears to us with such clarity that we feel animated by the spirit of the Destroyer''. But there is no need (always) for war, revolt, revolution. For Andrea Emo ''it is enough to turn our eyes on everything'' to recognize how the images of art, the theorems of science, the mysteries of religion are nothing but manifestations of this nothingness. However, precisely for this reason, art, science and religion should not be despised at all: the symbols with which they cover our existences take to the extreme the need to know what is unknowable (ourselves and God) and make us understand how even God can die in order to rise again. Christ is truly the Phoenix, the mythical animal that makes its nest in the fire that destroys it, and such destruction is, paradoxically, also our only salvation. In this book Emo unfolds his reflection on being and nothingness, but without forgetting the small pleasures and minute sufferings of everyday life, the loves, the hates, the fears, the desires of the flesh-and-blood women and men around us.