Tecnica e riproducibilità: gli esiti della metafisica occidentale e la nuova dimensione estetica

Abstract

Nihilism coincides with the accomplishment of metaphysics which, in turn, culminates in the triumph of the scientific rationality. The essence of metaphysics, in its last accomplish- ment (nihilism), consists of the oblivion of being, while the essence of nihilism represents the awareness of that oblivious accomplishment. The shadow of the Being (Seiende) covers the Being (Sein) while the real facts lead the scientific-experimental thought determining, from Galileo on, the supremacy of the experimentally reproducible objectivity as well as of the scientific method on the actually productive subjectivity. The result is the so-called «te- chnological planetary orientation»: lost the sense of the metaphysic question, philosophy comes to the end. In other words, after Nietzsche there is only science/technique. There- fore, how has all that weighed on the aesthetic dimension? The artistic productivity, though reflecting the torment of the human soul, towards the nothing of sense miraculously tends to make the light of the Being (Sein) appear from the shadow of the material Being (Seien- de). Every originating artistic shine of the Being (Sein) is an aesthetic expression from the pure creative human act which celebrates its own being as a dynamic bond of connections (inter-essewould say evocatively Kierkegaard-Climacus) that cannot understand the origin but spread its form.