Sacred and Profane Love Episode 6: Elena Ferrante on Friendship and the Intellectual Life

Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 4:53 p.m.

b'

In Episode 6 of Sacred & Profane Love, Professor Jennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) has a conversation with Zena Hitz (St. John\\u2019s College) about friendship, the intellectual life, and the virtue of seriousness in Elena Ferrante\\u2019s Neopolitan novels.\\xa0 This episode explores how the cultivation of an inner life through contemplation\\u2013i.e., seeing, understanding, and savoring things as they are\\u2013allows us to enter into a deep and meaningful communion with other human persons.

'