The age of technology and the market

Guarda la registrazione dell'incontro con il Professor Umberto Galimberti che si è tenuto in STEP FuturAbility District nell'ambito del programma scientifico culturale.

In the last century the world has passed from the age of humanism into the age of technology. Technology is no longer a tool for man’s use, it has become the subject of the world. Technology is the highest form of rationality ever achieved, the realm where decisions are taken, the maximum attainment of our goals with the minimum input. But it is also our environment and landscape, where ends and means, goals and concepts, actions and passions, even dreams and desires need technology to be expressed.

In this era of unpredictability, our ability to do has exceeded our ability to envisage the effects of our actions and it is above all the young who have paid the price of an uncertain future. If human beings are not only rationality but also irrationality, creativity, imagination, then what role does the future reserve us?

In this meeting Professor Umberto Galimberti, one of the most prominent contemporary philosophers, will help us reflect on the future also through the thoughts of some of the great figures of the past.

Umberto Galimberti is an Italian philosopher, psychoanalyst and university professor. He was Professor of Philosophy of History, Dynamic Psychology, Moral Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Since 1985 he has been an ordinary member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. He was a pupil of philosopher Karl Jaspers, of whom he is one of the most eminent scholars and interpreters. He has dedicated other studies to Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Since 1995 he has collaborated with newspaper “la Repubblica”. His best-known works include: Heidegger, Jaspers e il tramonto dell’Occidente (1975), Psichiatria e fenomenologia (1977), Il corpo (1983), Dizionario di psicologia (1992), Psiche e tecne, L’uomo nell’età della tecnica (1998), Gli equivoci dell’anima (1999), Orme del sacro (2000), L'ospite inquietante (2007), Il segreto della domanda. Intorno alle cose umane e divine (2008), La morte dell'agire e il primato del fare nell'età della tecnica (2009), I miti del nostro tempo (2009), Cristianesimo (2012), La disposizione dell'amicizia e la possessione dell'amore (2016), La parola ai giovani. Dialogo con la generazione del nichilismo attivo (2018), Heidegger e il nuovo inizio, il pensiero al tramonto dell'Occidente (2020).