"Umberto Galimberti Why listen?", Said Professor Ivana Padoan students of the Master in Communication and non-verbal language at the University Ca 'Foscari of Venice. The answer was so obvious to us all baffled. For many of us, the possibility of having Umberto Galimberti as a teacher was the main reason for our participation in this training course. Some years ago I had the opportunity to hear the Philosopher to speak in a crowded theater in Ancona. I was very down, up and could not see his face. I witnessed the construction of his philosophical discourse with the same satisfaction when you listen to Brahms. Galimberti, from an everyday occurrence came to the Platonic conception of the soul space for Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Philosophy, media, History, Sociology, crime news. The applause of the audience, the Finally, I have reset back to the more prosaic reality and only then I realized that two hours had passed. Back home I was reminded of an experience like this, where I had lost track of time. I was in Brazil, grew up in a big city boy, I was for the first time in a forest north of Mato Grosso. I heard the approach of cries that I did not know if they came from birds or other animals. All of a sudden I watch astonished to make a monkey flying a flight from a high tree to another far away, correcting the trajectory of the sprint with its long tail. The ride will have lasted 5 seconds, yet it seemed an eternity. A flight so unlikely for an animal without the ... A monkey that flies and screams like a bird, a beast funny and amazing, a masterpiece of nature. A work of living art that left me breathless. I was there to look at that slice of sky above me, while the monkey continued his flight through the jungle, unaware of his Prodigios.
I told this story as an answer to the question of Professor Padoan, with no intention of alluding ad'una alleged resemblance between Professor Galimberti, who was there, and the flying monkeys in my memory away. The fact is that the whole class is being waged in a mocking laughter that did not allow me to explain. And so, I'm remained in doubt whether Professor Galimberti was offended at being called "Flying Monkey of Thought." A few months later, Galimberti is back in the Marche and I went to see the end of his gym on youth Castelfidardo. I took with me a bottle of Rosso Conero best in the area and a note of apology for my unfortunate speech to the Master of Venice. He saw me before I approached, recognized me and greeted me as if we were old friends. "Ah, the Brazilian Flying Monkey!" I handed the bottle and I held the note of apology. Umberto Galimberti, besides being one of the greatest masters of our time, is also a man with a sense of humor. I am very proud to have been his pupil, to be considered by him a flying monkeys too.
Here's the video with a few minutes of his lecture at the Master CLNV.
Link to audio file of the lesson to the Master which lasted about an hour.
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Link to audio file with a speech about an hour and a half for the Celebration of Women in 2008 in Acona.
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Link to audio of the debate about an hour to Women's Day in 2008 in Acona.
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