Research webinar – Literature will save us from extinction

We are the first generations to coexist with the risk of our own extinction.

Certain categories that have guided the human sciences must also be radically rethought: from those which in the era of modernity have forged an abstract and simplified idea of human history and the natural environment, to certain more particular imaginative and narrative models, such as the apocalyptic form inherited from the Judeo-Christian tradition, because of which we are accustomed to think there will be an end to man and his civilization, but which in actual fact hinders any feeling that an emergency may exist.