CONTRIBUTI / 10 / di Mirko Alagna
Grudge, resentment, fear, violent reaction to a paranoid feeling of powerlessness: these are some ingredients of the ‘growl’, which is proposed here as the political passion of the present – more then anger or envy, typical of the XX century. The growling call themselves penultimate, but in a logical and ontological sense rather than material: with their eyes fixed down, regardless of how much lower they are, they are terrified of being reached, even more than they aspire to reach others. From Weber to Sloterdijk, from Franzen to Lagioia, this essay tries to define ‘growl’ and to analyse its material and cultural roots. In a time when the classic dichotomies of political philosophy seem to be in crisis, growl appears to be the agglutinant of a whole political bloc, that would be otherwise incomprehensible.
