Book, Medea's Cauldron, O[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Roberto Romano in 'The Cauldron of Medea', brings together a set of essays in which the author does not deceive the 'daughters of the old king' nor does he say that the 'people are always fools'. Quite the opposite. The author demonstrates that democracy, transparency, prudent ethics and good customs can be guaranteed with education and freedom, as precepted by the Enlightenment Diderot, according to which the people are only a purely destructive force when they have not been educated in the sciences and Art. It is, therefore, a book whose ideas under debate are linked to the great concerns of a new century that, barely beginning, is already faced with the fanaticism, intolerance and irrationality of men.