In Florence, the Festival of Religions, the theme will be “Happy and discontented?”
“Happy and unhappy?” is the theme of the Florence Festival of Religions (19-21 November), which rekindles one of the most ancient and complex questions of Western civilization, the theme of happiness in relation to the great availability of resources and services. The organizer Francesca Campana Comparini, philosopher, author of the book “Here I am – The theory of anticipation”, poses the question under the spiritual and socio-economic profiles with interference from psychology, medicine, art, myth. At the opening of the festival, Mayor Dario Nardella will deliver the Keys to the City on Friday 19 at 3 pm to the Jewish writer Edith Bruck, who will offer a testimony of the Shoah; the journalist Paolo Mieli and the foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, will focus on the prospects for peace in the Middle East; Father Enzo Bianchi will speak of happiness in God; the molecules of happiness and will instead be at the center of the intervention of the doctor Professor Andrea Fagiolini; art, the wonder of the images of happiness and their meaning will be Vittorio Sgarbi’s study; Massimo Recalcati, on the other hand, will dedicate time to the philosophical and psychoanalytical discussion between joy and happiness; for Sergio Givone the focus will be on the relationship between happiness and freedom; then Imam Izzedin Elzir and Enrico Fink will talk about happiness in Islam and Judaism. There will also be interventions by the philosopher Umberto Galimberti, by Vito Mancuso, theologian, and by Father Bernardo Gianni who will discuss with the organizer how much man in the search for happiness, not being able to be enough for himself, always needs God. will be held in several locations, at the Basilica San Miniato and the Convent of San Salvatore. Live streaming on Fb channel and Youtube is expected.