Umberto Galimberti. Lo spaesamento e l'etica del viandante

Location: Teatro della Concordia. Address: Corso Puccini. End: 23:00 The West has two roots: the Greek world and the Judeo-Christian tradition. Although they open up completely different horizons, both describe a world endowed with order and stability. But we live in the age of technology. The enchantment of the world typical of the ancients is over. The disenchantment of moderns, who still acted according to a horizon of meaning and a purpose, is over as well. Technology does not aim at a goal, does not open up scenarios of salvation, does not reveal the truth: technology works. Ethics, as a form of acting in view of ends, celebrates its impotence. The world is now governed by doing as pure production of results. The only possible ethics, writes Umberto Galimberti, is that of the wanderer. Unlike the traveler, the wanderer has no destination. His nomadic path, far from being anarchic wandering, takes on the absence of a purpose. The wanderer pushes his steps forward, but no longer with the intention of finding something, home, homeland, love, truth, salvation. He walks so as not to lose the figures of the landscape. And so he discovers the emptiness of the law and the sleep of politics, still the