La realtà che manca

(Missing Reality)

Abstract

One of the peculiar features of the global age is the tendency to the unification of life forms under the rubric of the liquidity of subjective experience. The age of stability, which traditionally is also the epoch of a primacy of reality, has collapsed (Benjamin, Beck, Bauman, Appadurai). The theoretical core of such a change can be retraced to some forms of social feeling: the late-modern experience is fundamentally psychotic, marked by the loss of the principle of reality and the emergence of situations in which what prevails is fear, anxiety, homesickness, regret, up to indifference and lack of affectivity (Maldiney, Recalcati). This essay explores the emotional horizon that is often overlooked by the numerous vindications of realism (among which is Gabriel’s) that today propose an ontological turn in philosophy.