Tu sei il mio nemico. Per una filosofia dell'inimicizia.

[Autom. eng. transl.] From Sophocles' Antigone to Hannah Arendt's studies on totalitarianism, through the contributions of Jacques Deridda and Carl Schmitt, the text offers a philosophical path dedicated to the theme of enmity, as an interpersonal relationship and as a theoretical "place" of politics and citizenship. An itinerary in which, through a dialogue and a confrontation with many voices of classical thought and contemporaneity, the anthropological question emerges with innovative accents as a question about the identity of man, that is, as a discourse that challenges each of us as we architect and prey to the dynamics of hostility, conflict and war. From Antigone who, to bury the corpse of his brother, in the name of pietas, violates the law of the city, thus becoming the enemy of power, to the dynamics of the physical destruction of the enemy that in the totalitarian logic establishes the terrible secret on which to found the identity of politics, the volume introduces a phenomenology of the victim and the executioner as a cross-section of the human condition. Faced with an "other" who becomes a sign of a real or fictitious threat to our identity, the real challenge is to prevent any form of enmity from degenerating into a totalitarian violence that prevents us from grasping the value of the human as a ground on to found a common world and a welcoming polis. After all, in every enemy there is at the same time another and ourselves.