La bellezza e il male. Un'analisi filosofico-politica

Desire, beauty, and evil constitute a complex nexus in which symbolic, philosophical, and political dimensions overlap. Desire, as an anarchic and subversive force, resists confinement within religious, moral, or legal norms, continuously exceeding them, challenging boundaries, and opening spaces for utopia. Beauty, being intimately linked to desire, emerges as an ambivalent power: it is an attraction toward the good, yet also a source of disorder – a force capable of destabilising normative power. Within this tension, the symbolic dimension manifests itself through figures such as the temple or the fragment, which embody interruption and allude to an unattainable totality. Desire is thus interpreted not merely as transgression but as a constitutive element of a political dynamism that interrogates institutions and their normative language. Beauty itself, in its universal character, resists reduction to a hierarchical instrument of control, as is evident in fashion, which perpetuates social inequalities through mechanisms of imitation and distinction. On the political plane, desire destabilises the claims of absoluteness made by law and power, revealing their fragile and contingent nature. Together with beauty, it operates as a transformative principle, capable of transfiguring reality and imagining new worlds. Beauty and desire are not confined to aesthetic or emotional roles; they emerge as critical tools for rethinking the relationships between justice, power, and freedom, offering a perspective in which politics intertwines with the imaginary and the symbolic to generate new possibilities of existence.