Focusing on the Mediterranean as a pivotal element in Western history, this book explores concepts of openness and hospitality in Europe. It emphasizes the sea's diverse yet interconnected nature, proposing it as a model for innovative social and political coexistence. The work invites readers to reconsider European identity and unity through the lens of cultural differences and shared heritage, aiming to inspire new forms of community and collaboration.
In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms and cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable, Katsa forms an underground Council whose purpose is to combat the destructive behaviour of the seven kings - after all, the Middluns is only one of the Seven Kingdoms, each of them ruled by their own king and his personal agenda for power. When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates ... and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills, for the first time, as she and the Council rushed the old man to saftey? Something dark and deadly is rising in the north and creeping across the continent, and behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king ...
La geo-filosofia del Mediterraneo delineata in questo libro è una riflessione filosofica appassionata e vibrante che, partendo dal dato geografico, coglie gli aspetti simbolici e storici di questo mare così cruciale per la storia europea e dell'intero occidente. Il Mediterraneo assume allora i tratti di un pluriverso composito... di un mare di differenze che, tuttavia, mostra una profonda radice unitaria. Proprio questo carattere insieme unitario e plurale, nell'incessante articolazione di terra e di mare, può fungere da paradigma per ripensare nuove forme di convivenza sociale e politica. Per ripensare l'Europa a partire dal Mediterraneo, nel segno dell'apertura e dell'ospitalità.
