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The ethic dimension of the word

In a world marked by violence and axiological dissolution, can Word still be good for the individual ethic constitution, as self-knowledge and knowledge of another? This is the question considered by this paper, in which we comment some views of the film Il postino.

word; value; knowledge; resistance; Il postino


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