Piergiorgio Odifreddi, like many people born in the postwar period, grew up in the myth of the United States and the "liberating" American soldiers. Yet, beginning with the Vietnam War, his relationship with the US began to change. As time goes by, he realizes the violent ways in which Western countries in general have always lorded it over the peoples: economic exploitation, trade embargo, military occupation, and more oppressions.
In this book he reflects on the arrogance of the West, and invites us not to ease our conscience through the illusion that, perhaps, others may even be worse than we are.
In this book he reflects on the arrogance of the West, and invites us not to ease our conscience through the illusion that, perhaps, others may even be worse than we are.
Biografia dell'autore
Piergiorgio Odifreddi is one of the most debated intellectuals of the cultural scene. He has studied mathematics in Italy, the United States and in the Soviet Union; he has taught Mathematical Logic at the University of Turin and the Cornell University of New York.
