What does it mean to “teach terrestrial identity” and feel part of a “community of destiny”? According to Edgar Morin, these questions can be answered by revising the concept of human development, renewing anthropopolitical culture, and adopting polycentric thinking, in order to seriously acknowledge that what connects us also distinguishes us, namely a common planetary destiny. The problem with today’s globalization is that the world we live in requires complex thinking in order to reflect on and understand the relationship between the whole and the parts. But how can we achieve, with a view to reunifying the particular, a vision that captures unity without assimilating or reducing the complexity of reality and human experience? The symbolic path and hermeneutic intelligence act precisely as a means to rearticulate the totality of human experience in all its components—rational, imaginal, and instinctual—conferring a certain degree of unity to the myths, archetypal forces, contexts, customs, energies, and ideas of a people, and to the relationship of the subjects with themselves and with otherness, which is always dialectically constituted of identity and difference, of individuality and collectivity, of human and non-human.
Quale "comunità di destino"? Rileggendo Edgar Morin. La via simbolica e le sfide dell'alterità nella società globale.
F. RICCI
2025-01-01
Abstract
What does it mean to “teach terrestrial identity” and feel part of a “community of destiny”? According to Edgar Morin, these questions can be answered by revising the concept of human development, renewing anthropopolitical culture, and adopting polycentric thinking, in order to seriously acknowledge that what connects us also distinguishes us, namely a common planetary destiny. The problem with today’s globalization is that the world we live in requires complex thinking in order to reflect on and understand the relationship between the whole and the parts. But how can we achieve, with a view to reunifying the particular, a vision that captures unity without assimilating or reducing the complexity of reality and human experience? The symbolic path and hermeneutic intelligence act precisely as a means to rearticulate the totality of human experience in all its components—rational, imaginal, and instinctual—conferring a certain degree of unity to the myths, archetypal forces, contexts, customs, energies, and ideas of a people, and to the relationship of the subjects with themselves and with otherness, which is always dialectically constituted of identity and difference, of individuality and collectivity, of human and non-human.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
