Sociologist Domenico De Masi died in Rome. He was 85 years old. Last August 15, he had discovered by chance that he had an invasive disease, while he was on vacation in Ravello.
Doctors at the Gemelli hospital in Rome had told him that he would have little time to live. The news of his death shocked the world of culture.
Born in Rotello, in the province of Campobasso, he was professor emeritus of Sociology of Work at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, where, among other things, he was dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences.
Together with Ermete Realacci and Alessandro Profumo, he was the founder of “Symbola”, an association of excellent companies. He passed away at 85 after a sudden illness.
He was also director of the “School of Citizenship” of the newspaper “Il Fatto Quotidiano”.
“From creative idleness to agile work. With Domenico De Masi we have lost a fine intellectual, a forerunner of his time with his innovative theories and a defender of social and civil rights. As Dean of the Faculty of Sociology and Communication Sciences of “La Sapienza” he had shown himself to always be on the side of the weakest and the young, his obsession.
Our condolences go to his family and to the community of Ravello, a town on the Amalfi coast, which had appreciated his cultural activism and social commitment over the years". This was written in a note by the delegation of the 5 Star Movement to the European Parliament.
Domenico De Masi, professor emeritus of sociology of work at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome where he was dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, is the author of over thirty books, mainly concerning post-industrial society, the sociology of work, creativity, urban sociology and development.
His publishing work has been particularly intense in the last decade with titles such as: “A simple revolution. Work, leisure, creativity: new routes for a lost society” (Rizzoli, 2016); “Work for free, everyone works. Because the future belongs to the unemployed” (Rizzoli, 2017); “Work 2025, the future of employment (and unemployment)” (Marsilio Editori, 2017); “Work in the 2018st century” (Einaudi, XNUMX); “The age of wandering.
Tourism in the next decade” (Marsilio, 2018); “The world is still young” (Rizzoli, 2018); “Rome 2030” (Einaudi, 2019), “The necessary state” (Rizzoli, 2020); “Smart working: The revolution of intelligent work” (Marsilio, 2020): “Happiness denied” (Einaudi, 2022). Since the beginning of his career, DE MASI has dedicated himself to non-fiction writing, which has gradually intensified: “Urban negation.
“Social transformations and deviant behavior in Naples” (Il Mulino, 1971); “Sociology of the company” (Il Mulino, 1973); “Workers in Italian industry” (Franco Angeli Editore, 1974); “Treatise on the sociology of work and organization” (Franco Angeli Editore, 1985-87); “The post-industrial worker” (Franco Angeli Editore, 1985); “Emotion and the rule.
Creative Groups in Europe from 1850 to 1950” (Laterza, 1990); “Development without Work” (Edizioni del Lavoro, 1994); “Creative Idleness” (Ediesse, 1995); “The Future of Work. Toil and Idleness in Postindustrial Society” (Rizzoli, 1999); “Imagination and Concreteness. Individual and Group Creativity” (Rizzoli, 2003); “There is No Progress Without Happiness” (Rizzoli, 2004); “Mappa Mundi. Life Models for a Society Without Orientation” (2013); “Tag. The Words of Time” (Rizzoli, 2015).
Article published on 9 September 2023 - 17:15
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