Article ID: CBB438218343

De Martino e l'Antropocene: la fine di un mondo (2023)

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Ernesto De Martino’s sensitivity to “The End of the World” leads one to reread his notes, his reflections within the problem now synthetically defined as “Anthropocene”. Has De Martino thus laid the foundations for an anthropology of the Anthropocene? The answer formulated in this paper is certainly negative. For De Martino, the theme of the end of the world is attributable to traditional conceptions of history (whether cyclical or linear), that is, to conceptions that allow themselves to be overwhelmed by the inexorable cycles of nature or that instead place the end, equally inexorable, at the end of a linear historical path. Against these two conceptions, De Martino strongly asserts the principle of the “infinity of human history”, which only Western civilisation with its inimitable progress has been able to conceive and realise. We are thus at the antipodes of the critical culture of the Anthropocene and of the concerns that two of De Martino’s contemporaries (Claude Lévi-Strauss, author of Tristes Tropiques, and Aurelio Peccei, founder of the Club of Rome) had far-sightedly manifested.

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Authors & Contributors
Lucio De Capitani
Blanckaert, C.
Brookes, Barbara L.
Carpenter, Carol
Despoix, Philippe
Dove, Michael F.
Journals
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
History and Anthropology
History of the Human Sciences
History Workshop Journal
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Wetlands (publisher)
University of Pennsylvania
AltaMira Press
Blackwell Publishers
Carocci Editore
Concepts
Anthropology
Cultural anthropology
Environmental history
Philosophy
Environment
Climate change
People
De Martino, Ernesto
Cohen, Hermann
Dilthey, Wilhelm
Kant, Immanuel
Leroi-Gourhan, André
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Venice (Italy)
France
Italy
New Zealand
United States
Sardinia
Institutions
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Smithsonian Institution
Mass-Observation
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