From Immunity to Nihilism
About a Recent Book by Gianluca Garelli
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/9048Keywords:
Dream – Modernity – Dialectics – Skepticism – TragicAbstract
The text critically deals with a recent volume by Gianluca Garelli, devoted to the dreams of reason: namely, those hypotheses about the dreamlike texture of reality that modern reason formulates only to reaffirm their absurdity. This question has an ontological, rather than anthropological, value; but it can cross over into aesthetics – especially with the baroque theme of the world as a theater of dreams – or into ethics – as soon as the continuity of the agent’s consciousness is questioned. The main aim of modern reason is therefore, from Descartes onwards, to design an immune strategy, capable of incorporating the germ of skepticism as an insurance against the looming ruin of experience. An insurance, however, not always reliable. That the dialectic of immunity can lead to nihilistic outcomes, is in fact at least one of the many possible reading keys for Garelli’s essay.
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