Che cos'è la filosofia?

Starting from the analysis of three texts – “What is philosophy?” by Heidegger, “What is philosophy?” by Deleuze and “What is Enlightenment” by Foucault – this essay identifies in the relationship between origin and contemporaneity a recurring question in philosophical works. This question, albeit understood in a different way, is still being asked today, when a “biological turn” has replaced the ‘linguistic turn’ of the first decades of the twentieth century. Today the category of “life” is at the center of contemporary philosophy. Different philosophers – from thinkers of biopolitics to those of neuroscience, from philosophers of the body to those of the mind – inscribe their work in a horizon marked by the presence of bios, going beyond the canonical contrast between analytic and continental philosophy.