The Impossible Hope

For a Critical Dilation of the Present

Abstract

The article provides a diagnosis of the present age, where hope is deformed, because destroyed by a depressed living, or hypertrophied, in the anxious. Hope then is recognized as an accomplished relation with temporality, capable of offering an authentic determination of self. In order to define such a dynamic an interpretation of time as an event is necessary, as foreseen by theoretic paradigms which reconsider the metaphysical connection of causality. In this way hope can be recognized as critical application to the present, because dilated to the measure of impossibility thanks to an oblique relation to history.