The February Issue of Rekh Magazine explores several aspects of corporeality / disembodiment as a path to the metaphysics of the Person. Interdisciplinary at heart, this approach collects multiple perspectives with the aim of a systemic view.
By The Editor
The body as a complex system that constantly interacts with the environment can be seen as a metaphysical theme to approach the sense of Being a Person. From this idea moves the February Issue of Rekh Magazine, which provides the readers with various perspectives, always systemic, to the question addressed. The issue starts talking about the body made the object of violence: Professor Gianluigi Segalerba, a leading philosopher, examines the painful chapter of torture, a worldwide phenomenon that affects people in every cultures and countries, especially in time of conflict, as the Ukraine war proves.
The recent war at the East borders of Europe also relaunches rape as a (lethal) weapon of war against the weakest among the human subjects: women and children. A conversation with Dr. Virginia Ciaravolo, psychologist and therapist takes the reader deep into the multifaceted, psychological consequences of sexual violence.
The extreme violence of Nazi totalitarianism did not keep Etty Hillesum down, an exceptional woman who witnessed the depth of good before she died in Auschwitz.
The body is a limit, but also a subject of transcendence, where human and divine meet, beyond any dualism.
Don Natalino Pedrana, a Catholic priest, is the author of a dense and very clear article on the transfigured body of Christ.
Anna Savini, a sensitive journalist and a gifted novelist, explores the contradictions of a society that still looks at the body with too many prejudices.
Roberta Redaelli, a specialist in the field of sustainability, addresses the return of the Person to the very heart of the fashion scene.
Professor John Wang, US academic, one of the most brilliant scholars in the field of cybernetics, and also the editor of the Encyclopedia of Big Data recently published by IGI Global introduces us to Big Data and Machine Learning, the engines of the Fourth Revolution.
The international manager (and a curious of nature), based in Switzerland, Riccardo Soliani Brivio investigates how human bodies are involved in the texture of the environmental frequencies: a surprisingly new approach to life.
Sociologist Gianfranco Brevetto, the editor in chief of Exagere, the magazine of SIPP (Società Italiana di Psicologia e Pedagogia) focuses on the ill body also according to literary masterpieces (Tostoj, Camus).
Psychologist, psychotherapist and EMDR practitioner Allegra Fisogni examines how to deal with the loss - even of the body of a loved one - due to COVID-19 with EMDR therapy.
From the Ancient Egyptians we learn how the medical analysis of the patient's body generated a first, but not primitive, scientific method. Writes Primavera Fisogni, the editor.
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