This essay puts forward the idea that rethinking doing is the task that human sciences will need to undertake in the XXI century because the dichotomy do / think is one of the most deceptive and dangerous that the Western furor dividendi has ever formulated. Likewise, this is the time to re-do thinking: both activities, divided from each other, are today quantitatively efficient, but incapable of making sense of themselves, of their own proceeding and of the world where they operate. Similarly incapable are the people who perform them and suffer cruelly from this defeat. It would take a subject restored to an active role as interpreter and creator of culture to remedy these shortcomings, reintegrating the spheres in an innovative tensile equilibrium. To this end, insights from the works of Dumont, Simmel and Damasio are discussed and connected to Sennett’s crucial intuition of the need for a new craftsmanship. This becomes the model of a foundational cultural act, in which a complex vision of culture joins a subjectivity that is at the same time a dynamic balance between rational and emotional components and a process where body and soul are inextricably entwined.
Craftsmanship as the Model of a new cultural Way
D'ANDREA, Fabio
2013
Abstract
This essay puts forward the idea that rethinking doing is the task that human sciences will need to undertake in the XXI century because the dichotomy do / think is one of the most deceptive and dangerous that the Western furor dividendi has ever formulated. Likewise, this is the time to re-do thinking: both activities, divided from each other, are today quantitatively efficient, but incapable of making sense of themselves, of their own proceeding and of the world where they operate. Similarly incapable are the people who perform them and suffer cruelly from this defeat. It would take a subject restored to an active role as interpreter and creator of culture to remedy these shortcomings, reintegrating the spheres in an innovative tensile equilibrium. To this end, insights from the works of Dumont, Simmel and Damasio are discussed and connected to Sennett’s crucial intuition of the need for a new craftsmanship. This becomes the model of a foundational cultural act, in which a complex vision of culture joins a subjectivity that is at the same time a dynamic balance between rational and emotional components and a process where body and soul are inextricably entwined.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
