Odor, flames and smoke: Covid and the incendiary crisis of reason
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Covid. Crisis. Reason. Polis. Phenomenology.Abstract
The text starts from a phenomenological diagnosis: that every pandemic emergency (such as that of covid, for example) is the fatal symptom of a state of crisis motivated in the same ontological entrails of rationality as it takes shape in our Western culture. The task of thought is not to destroy reason, but to safeguard it in the face of the ever-imminent danger of irrationalism. Thus, every form of obscurantism emerges as a decadent figure with a symptomatic backdrop to the crisis of reason itself; crisis that was installed by the distinction of principle between culture and nature so well prefigured by Marx and deepened by Merleau-Ponty. The text examines this neuralgic point and ends by highlighting the essential character and therefore political inalienably this phenomenon.
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