THE CHALLENGES OF LIVING IN THE ERA OF NIHILISM

Eugenio Borgna, Emeritus Head Physician at the Ospedale Maggiore of Novara, academic and essayist; Umberto Galimberti, Philosopher, sociologist, psychoanalyst, academic and journalist. Introduced by Costantino Esposito, Full Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Bari.

After the publication of his autobiography “Il fiume della vita. Una storia interiore” [The river of life. An inner story], the great master of Italian psychiatry, Eugenio Borgna comes back to the Meeting, while his student, philosopher and psychoanalyst Umberto Galimberti, joins it for the very first time. An unprecedented consideration of the challenges of living today.