Preface by: Marco Belpoliti
Year of publication: 2024


Synopsis:
The issue of nature's rights and our relationship with natural ecosystems is one of the great themes of contemporary philosophical debate. Non-human subjects, particularly those belonging to the mineral world, have always been considered inert matter or resources to be exploited. This anthropocentric view is rooted in the separation between culture and nature that underpins Western modern thought.
But is it possible to imagine a cultural model that helps us recognize stones and mountains as political actors too? And how, with an even more radical gesture, can we leave behind the very idea of personhood? Focusing on lithic matter – between erratic boulders and works of art, between ethnographic analyses and poetic suggestions – Federico Luisetti gives us, in the footsteps of Italo Calvino, an engaging reflection on being stone. An original and fundamental text of political ecology, which broadens perspectives and our own cognitive horizon.


Other information:
Series: Barene
Pages: 102
Language: Italian
ISBN: 9791280930118