The Trees of Literature. Philosophy from the Origins to 1999 Curated by Marco Filoni and Antonio Gnoli. Original drawing by Emiliano Maggi. Graphics of 3 centograms.

It is ultimately a sort of "canon" that collects almost 250 works of Western philosophy, from its origins to 1999. And we obviously find the noble fathers of this discipline, from Greek thought of the origins that appears in the roots (the tree is composed of works and, only in its roots, only the authors are indicated since these have not left writings - then as known orality was at the basis of the transmission of knowledge), until to the authors that today we are going to listen to the various festivals.

Like every selection, the tree is the result of a choice, the decision of the curators of which were the decisive and most important works in history. Naturally, personal taste played a role in this choice in balance with objectivity in the history of history. Here then is that for the great Aristotle the curators have decided to show Metaphysics and not his Politics or Ethics; going upwards, the little-known names of Al-Ghazali or that of Al-Farabi appear with their works. And the closer you get to the present, the more obviously you want to invoke the game of absences and presences. From works that no one reads anymore (for example Aden Arabia by the Frenchman Paul Nizan) to the cynical aphorisms of the Colombian writer Nicolás Gómez Dávila; from neuroscientist Antonio Damasio with his Descartes's Error (a work that some might object to appearing in "philosophy") to psychologist Julian Jaynes with his book The bicameral collapse and the origin of consciousness. In short, there will be surprises.

100x70 cm

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