Il mimo e lo stupore nel pensiero di Jeanne Hersch

And that a meaningful volume on the role of the intellectual in our time. "From Seir mi you shout ' Sentinel is the night? '" (Is 21, 11). Full time of disenchantment, facing the collapse of great certainties, we must meet the challenge of an age without prophets, to become like the Sentinel, careful to scrutinize the signs of the future. Remains strong in some of the authors here examined-e. Stein, m. Buber, a. Gramsci: the conscience of an intellectual vocation towards a renewed understanding and action on reality; while others express heartfelt voices-h. Arendt, e. Wiesel, a. Heller, j. Hersch-the restlessness and takes patience to wait, his sentry Seir, facing the totalitarian ideologies and the tragedies that ravaged the twentieth century.