Even to the most
passionate advocate of the contemporary age, it appears relatively clear that
our society is facing a number of issues, whether they be of an economical,
environmental, or political nature. But what if the solution to those problems
could be something that precedes them? A common trait that unifies them all? In
this work, the author of The Empty Campus,
starting from a documented series of cultural premises, depicts an image of
society rooted in the ideas of education, real learning, knowledge, and
understanding that could serve as an antidote to many of the wrongdoings of our
species. The main goal of this essay is to address some of the worst facets of the
current situation of learning and the overall cultural situation of our time,
pointing to its human and political implications, while offering an analysis of
what the author considers to be the unperceived tragedy of our age. The Empty Campus grows from a profound
concern for the deepest roots of what makes us civilized beings and the passion
for learning and understanding that defines civilization in its opposition to
barbarism. The author points out that the absolute barbarian is the one who
lives only for himself in some sort of egotistical infinite present, someone who
cannot have any cultural frame of reference from the past or any stake in the
future because only real knowledge, the depository of values transcending the
vulgar and the immediate, is capable of giving roots to a wider perception of
human existence and granting a view that is more than the basic needs required
for survival: humans are not meant to survive, they are meant to live, and mere
survival is not a real life. Access to real knowledge represents, according to
the author, access to real life. Link: http://www.lulu.com/shop/sergio-caldarella/the-empty-campus/hardcover/product-22962745.html
"Problemi Filosofici della Scienza" (2011). "L'Ultima dea d'Occidente. Saggio sulla razionalità inesorabile" (2018). "The Empty Campus. Education and Miseducation in the New Global Age" (2016). "Metafisiche del Mondo" (1997)."La Società del Contrario" (2005). "I labirinti del cuore" (2011). "Kafka Ridens. Studio sull’umorismo in Kafka" (2010). "Beffe e Beffatori in Nome di una Crisi" (2021).
Dr. Divago, a.k.a. Sergio Caldarella, is a published author of sixteen books, several papers, articles and two theater pieces. He has participated as speaker in local and international conferences and seminars throughout Europe and the US. Some of the events he participated as invited speaker have been organized, sponsored or hosted by the followings: International Plato Society; Platoninstitut; Istituto Mediterraneo di Studi Universitari; The Italian Philosophical Society; The National Research Council (CNR); The M.I.T., Goethe-Institut; The British Council; Alliance Française; Assiberica; Thomas Aquinas Society; Spertus Institute Chicago; The Universities of Siena; Genova; Catania; Naples Eastern; Naples Federico II and Monmouth; The Scuola Normale Superiore; The German Embassy in Rome; Frankfurt Book Fair; Rome Book Fair “Più libri Più Liberi”; Jüdisches Kulturzentrum Veitshöchheim; Shir Shalom.
Selective Bibliography: "The Empty Campus"; “Metafisiche del Mondo"; “Memoria e dolore”; “La Società del Contrario”; “L’Algebra degli Scacchi; “Le lacrime della pioggia”; “Problemi Filosofici della Scienza”; "L'Ideologia del lupo."
History does not
always end in tragedy; sometimes it just becomes a mere farce. 
