Oltre l’addomesticamento dell’enigma. La pedagogia di fronte alla malattia

This essay examines illness as an anthropological and educational experience, exploring its philosophical, historical, literary, and pedagogical dimensions. From biblical texts to Hippocratic writings, from Aquinas to Cartesian modernity, and from Canguilhem and Sontag to the medical humanities, illness is portrayed as an event linking body, language, and freedom. It disrupts life’s continuity, urging new norms of meaning and acting as a call to personal awareness. Pedagogy does not tame the enigma of suffering but guides individuals in transforming vulnerability into narrative and ethical resources, fostering an education to care that preserves the uniqueness and symbolic depth of illness.