Sfondamento e anticipazione: figure dell’alternativa in Jaspers e in Bloch

(Breakthrough and Anticipation: Images of the alternative in Jaspers and Bloch)

Abstract

Nowadays walls, barriers, separation strategies seem to multiply. The article explores the theme of the regenerative power of philosophy in its orientation toward “breaking through” barriers of closed cultures and ideologies. The category of Durchbruch proposed by Karl Jaspers and the idea of thinking as the power to overcome boundaries, as proposed by Ernst Bloch, are taken up and updated in light of the main closures typical of the global world. These closures are identified in order to show, on the contrary, the crucial need for philosophical contributions of an ethical, hermeneutic, and existential nature.