Empathism

The Empathic Movement (Italian: La Scuola Empatica / Empatismo) is a literary, artistic, philosophical and cultural movement^[1][2][3] born in the South of Italy in 2020^[1][4] within the 'New Cultural Triangle of Ancient Cilento':^[5] Omignano - "The Aphorisms Village",^[6] Salento - "The Poetry Village",^[7][8] Vallo della Lucania - "Seat of Contemporary Arts Centre".^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

The symbolic myth of the movement,^[16] is called Unus:^[17] a semi unknown god (son of Zeus) representing the Total Artist killed, torn to pieces and thrown into the Alento (Campania) river by his brothers, determining the old separation of the Arts.^[18][19]

Menotti Lerro asked several noted artists to sign the “Empathic Manifesto”, to join in their peculiar expression of the “Arts” in a less individualistic way.^[20] They then started to help create a new cultural pole in Southern Italy, giving life first to the “Contemporary Arts Centre” in the Cilento area, which has invented "The Poetry Village", "The Aphorisms Village", "The Village of love", and The Cilento Poetry Prize, giving light to new territory in terms of culture. The decentralization of culture gives voice to the silent masses of Cilento especially the peasant ones in the mountains, with a peculiar emphasis on intense and genuine emotion and feelings to share with others through Arts, refusing individualism, social exclusion, excesses of competition among artists and also rejecting the large phenomenon of plagiarism mainly due to the mass media and internet in particular.^[21][1][22]

The Empathic School was the third School born in the Province of Salerno, as stressed by the Soprintendenza of Salerno e Avellino in 2021. The previous two were the Eleatic School and Schola Medica Salernitana.^{[23][24][25][26][27]}

Some of the members who signed up include: Menotti Lerro founder of the Empathic movement, Antonello Pelliccia co-editor with Menotti Lerro of the New Manifesto of Arts, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Olga Tokarczuk, Dacia Maraini, Maurizio Cucchi, Milo de Angelis, Giampiero Neri, Franco Loi, Roberto Carifi, Najwan Darwish, Giuseppe Gentile, Franco Mussida, Valerio Magrelli, Gino Finizio, Tiziano Rossi, Lidia Vianu, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Remo Bodei, Alessandro Serpieri, Davide Rondoni, Elena Paruolo, Gian Mario Villalta, Maria Teresa Chialant, Diego De Silva, Franco Arminio, Vivian Lamarque, Umberto Curi, Maria Rita Parsi, Omar Galliani, Raffaele Nigro, Tomaso Kemeny, Luigi Leuzzi, Angelo Ghilardi, Bernardo Lanzetti, Massimo Bacigalupo, Alessandro Quasimodo.^[28][29][30]

• The Empathic Movement, edited by Menotti Lerro (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2023), ISBN 978-1527538573
• Francesco D'Episcopo, Giuseppe Lauriello, Menotti Lerro, Luigi Leuzzi, Antonello Pelliccia, "Empatia, Essenza ed Esperienza", in "Riscontri" (Magazine), pp. 11-82. Anno XLIV - N.2 Maggio-Agosto 2022, edited by Ettore Barra. ISSN: 0392-5080, ISBN 978-8831340519

• Menotti Lerro, Antonello Pelliccia, New Manifesto of Arts (Zona: 2020) ASIN B08F2M1785
• Menotti Lerro, La scuola Empatica: movimento letterario-artistico-filosofico e culturale sorto in Italia nel 2020 (Ladolfi: 2020) ISBN 978-8866445678
• Francesco D'Episcopo, "Nuovo Manifesto sulle Arti", in Menotti Lerro, Tra Drammaturgia e Narrativa (Genesi: 2019), pp. 125–136. ISBN 978-8874147199
• "Nuovo Manifesto sulle Arti" in Annali Storici di Principato Citra, a. XVII n. 1-2, 2019, pp. 318–326. EAN 9788896821503
• Marius Chelaru on "Poezia" Revista de cultura poetica, Anul XXVI, nr. 1 (95) / Primavera 2021.

• Empatismo/Scuola Empatica: Movimento Letterario-Artistico-Filosofico e culturale sorto in Italia nel 2020, ISSN: 0392-5080
• By Carlo Di Legge on Nuovo Manifesto sulle Arti
• Davide Speranza, on Il Mattino, 09 August 2022, p. 28.
• Ste. Mar., on Il Mattino, 26 January 2023, "Il percorso di Menotti Lerro, da Parmenide all'Empatismo".

• The Three Schools of Salerno Province: Scuola Empatica, Scuola Eleatica, Scuola Medica Salernitana
• European Heritage Days
• Giornate Europee del Patrimonio - Empatismo

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