THE ESSENTIAL IN MATTER

Existential Necessity of a Hermit

von Francesco Scarinci

110 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Essential in MatterExistential Necessity of a HermitThis book is born from a necessity, not from an idea.It is not an essay to be understood, nor a text to be consumed, but a testimony matured in silence, in long time, and in the radical choice to withdraw from the noise of the system.The Essential in Matter gathers thirty brief and dense chapters, in which the author crosses themes such as contemporary hermitism, the dignity of choice, sobriety, limit, pain, loss, and what remains when everything superfluous falls away.It offers no answers and no consolations.It does not teach how to live.It simply shows what happens when one decides to remain whole.Matter, in this book, is not always named, but it is always present: as weight, as resistance, as embodied time. It is the silent foundation on which every reflection rests, even when the discourse seems to move toward man, solitude, renunciation, or love not postponed.This text is addressed to those who feel the need for a nonconforming thought, to those who are tired of speed, accumulation, and continuous delegation. To those who seek an existential philosophy lived, not explained.It is a book for those who choose a sober life, for those who reject entertainment, for those who consider integrity a form of responsibility.Each chapter is followed by a blank page, conceived as a space of presence: a place of pause, annotation, and silence. Because the essential must not only be read, but crossed.The Essential in Matter does not invite one to change life.It invites one to look at what already exists, to slow down, to remain.It is a book that does not ask for attention.It receives it only from those willing to offer it.