I rimorsi della Terra. Leggere Ernesto de Martino tra pandemie, incendi e guerre: un esercizio di immaginazione antropologica

Living in times of catastrophes, as Stengers writes, among the ruins of capitalism, as Tsing observes, requires an exercise of anthropological imagination. It is within this horizon that the reading of Ernesto de Martino, and of the unique way in which he intertwined the analysis of cultural and psychopathological apocalyptic, can offer de-cisive cues for thinking about the risk and the feeling of anguish that loom over our planet today. Starting from the recent re-edition of De Martino’s works, some of his major concepts are here connected with other theoretical perspectives which, even if coming from other epistemological regions, nevertheless intend to carry out the same, project: to promote effective responses to the crisis. After all, taking care of territories injured by contamination or voracious extractivism, protecting the beings (human and non-human persons) who inhabit them, fighting against the temptation to abdicate, is the task of every authentic cure, and of culture in its deepest and most profound sense.