The power of metaphor: Between erotetic bait and exhortation-imperative

In our attempt to write about Horia Bădescu’s book titled The Mirror Test, what we can say is: May the reader have the genuine hedone in its pure philosophical denotation (in terms of the Epicureanism’s “pleasure of the mind”); the pleasure, even happiness, of meeting the essayist’s insight, which fully conveys a life lesson able to turn into an intellectual, aesthetic and moral challenge of constant scrutiny-meditation supported by the delight of reading. Because, undoubtedly, each of us will grasp, at last, the joy of a real kairic life experience to which Horia Bădescu urges us: a deeply human experience that we need so; especially in nowadays chaotic time in which the human being risks becoming increasingly alienated from his/her own self.