Abstract

The award of the Mittner Prize to Elena Esposito gives an occasion to reflect about the meaning and the foundations of communication within the current culture and society. In a perspective in which the individual is deprived of his own value and forgetful of his historicity, communication becomes propaganda, that is, an instrument of falsification and subservience. For this reason, a thought which has to recover the rationality of communication rediscovering its rationality becomes necessary, with the awareness that this rationality – given the plurality and the uncertainty of reality – can be found only in the act of giving meaning, which the individual, as a moral and historical being, has to take charge of