Abstract

I knock at the stone’s front door: about unanswered questions This essay intends to investigate the way western philosophical tradition construes the relationship between nature and culture. From Platone to Heidegger, from Baudelaire to Italo Calvino, natural world has been described as mute, unable to signify. The Human being has built his supremacy over the natural environment on the certitude of representation. However this representation turns the other being into an object. And yet, if any question and any answer about nature are the result of a limited perspective, the request that man poses to nature is destined to stay unresolved.