Nowadays Anxieties and Anthropological Metamorphoses

Journal title RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA
Author/s Ubaldo Fadini
Publishing Year 2023 Issue 2023/2 Language Italian
Pages 12 P. 41-52 File size 613 KB
DOI 10.3280/RSF2023-002004
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Perceived on many levels of overall social life, anxieties are nowadays largely due to deep changes of the technological, economic and political structures and configurations of contemporary society. Thanks to a phenomenology of both individual and social life difficulties, this paper underlines the necessity of a cultural metamorphosis corresponding to such transformations in order to be able to cope with the spread of inhuman conditions. In this perspective - and also in relation to scholars such as Edgar Morin and Tim Ingold- this paper retraces the reasons for a “new civiliza- tion” capable of enhancing the singularities and the multiple specificities of the homo complexus, namely our reality as partial and open beings of rela- tionship.

Keywords: Metamorphosis, Civilization, Technology, Education, Hu- man Nature

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Ubaldo Fadini, Inquietudini del presente e metamorfosi antropologiche in "RIVISTA SPERIMENTALE DI FRENIATRIA" 2/2023, pp 41-52, DOI: 10.3280/RSF2023-002004