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Ashes West

Last pamphlet Emanuele Severino

What happens when a piece of wood burns? Is destroyed and in its place is a pile of ashes. This, Emanuele Severino, the explanation is nonsense that comes from the Western thought. Meaningless as the idea that one thing is - that there - can suddenly disappear into thin air. An absurd idea that, applied to human beings, filled with fear for the life of nothingness that awaits them after death. A play with a special wire synthesis of these reflections is the last book of the philosopher Brescia THAT 'Intimate hand that holds it together and not be rational in the madness of the West (Vintage, 179 p., 26 €). A small sum of forty years of research, which intersects with particular clarity and theoretical analysis and anthropological-political.
The response to the trauma of becoming, to Severino, is rather simple and reassuring. Is that the disappearance of things can not contradict the Basic Law of the ontology: the impossibility of being becomes nothing. The vanishing of the trunk under the workings of the flames, rather, it will mean his move elsewhere, because "the wood is ash and as such can not become one." Averted the nihilistic vision of the West, so "come forward who remain the eternal being and all this can come back." A penisero already expressed in his last works ( Joy , Destiny and the need Pass), where the philosophy is recognition of the fullness of existence, that is destined for glory as Joy ontological predestined to be, although for eclipse reappear.
Teoresi aside, what is most original in the latter book is an anthropological and political analysis. The accusation against a West convinced that everything that exists and is back to nothing and that this has taken the technique, the ability to create and destroy, at its undisputed leader. The criticism of a discontinuous view of history of cycles in the conflict between them, a fund of violence that justifies murder, because they are already enrolled in the course of things. The protest against a clash of faiths, religious or otherwise, that vie for the world dedicated to the only thing that can make sense once claimed the impossibility of a spiritual and eternal: the will to power.