Abstract

The following article is composed of four sections in which a philosophical problematisation of the historical relationship between anthropology and politics is developed. The first section discusses the anthropological foundation of the concept of the political, identifying its irrevocable relationship with an anthropocentric conception of life and technique as arcana that situate the human being in a place of ontological exceptionality above all other forms of terrestrial existence. The second section discusses, in a demonstrative tone, the crisis of political anthropology, in confrontation with the ecological crisis that runs through our epochal and planetary present. The last two sections, on the other hand, propose a set of reading keys from contemporary posthumanist debates in philosophy, with the aim of providing a thinking that is sensitive to the ecological decentring of politics.