This year the Festival will be developed around a crucial issue of political science culture of all time, despite always run the risk of being forgotten in the public debate.

So it introduces Massimo Cacciari, President of the Foundation Gianni Pelicans: 'It is not just to think the problem of 'legitimate violence' that necessarily work any state organization (a problem that also will be taken into serious consideration), but considering the inherent violence today in the different forms of relationship and social communication. Up to that point can be said to legitimate the violence? And put it mean lawful judge 'fair'? This reflection can not remain confined to the single dimension of international relations (where the issue of violence too often tends to escalate to war), but must be able to intervene in all aspects of the current crisis of democratic forms. '

During the Festival will be addressed gender-based violence, the violence of language, violence, economy, violence in international politics, the violence of satire. A special section will also be given to the relationship between politics and philosophy, which tematizzeremo starting with the most sophisticated political thinker of our tradition: Niccolo Machiavelli.