Corpo individuo Identità : scritti di filosofia e simbolica politica

Body, Individual, Identity starts from an examination of the concept of “body” as it was conceived in the pre-Socratic culture and then transvalued by Socrates and Plato, up to Christianity and the reinterpretation made by Descartes, who will make it a mere mechanema (res extensa) now almost completely disconnected from the soul (res cogitans). For a philosophical rehabilitation of corporeality we will have to wait for Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Only in the wake of these unprecedented as well as ancestral positions of thought will it be possible to lay the groundwork for a radical turning point, which will have consequences both in the immediate and in subsequent generations: from Rilke to Mann, from Michelstaedter to Campana or Kafka),but also from Freud to Jung and Lacan, from Husserl to Merleau-Ponty, from Jaspers to Sartre, from Foucault to Deleuze, Guattari and Nancy, etc. Reflecting on the “body” as a “principium individuationis” thus makes it necessary to question the concept of “individual,” thought of, at the same time, both in relation to the notion of “species” and in a socio-political sense as the ultimate term of the history of the West. In conclusion, it becomes necessary to reflect on the concept of “Identity,” also approached from various perspectives (political, logical and metaphysical), but always on the basis of the same philosophical framework.