The question of the rights of nature and our relationship with natural ecosystems is one of the great themes of contemporary philosophical debate.
Non-human subjects, in particular those belonging to the mineral world, have always been considered inert matter or resources to be exploited. This anthropocentric vision has its roots in that separation between culture and nature which is at the basis of modern Western thought.

But is it possible to imagine a cultural model that helps us to recognize stones and mountains as political actors? And how, with an even more radical gesture, can we leave behind the very idea of ​​person? Concentrating on lithic material - between erratic boulders and works of art, between ethnographic analyzes and poetic suggestions - Federico Luisetti gives us, in the footsteps of Italo Calvino, a passionate reflection on being stone. An original and fundamental text on political ecology, which broadens perspectives and our own cognitive horizon.

Preface by Marco Belpoliti.

Year of publication: 2023
Language: Italian