La terza epoca del concetto di “rivoluzione”: da Platonov a Latour passando per Koselleck (e oltre)

Starting from the horizon of ethical, economic, political and climatic crisis that characterises our epoch, this essay aims to propose an analysis of the concept of revolution and its positioning among the fundamental concepts that define the conditions of possibility of the historical and temporal experience of the human in Modernity. The exploration moves from Platonov’s novel, Čevengur, in which it is possible to explore the constraints and possibilities of the concept of revolution in Modernity, its complex reasons and contradictions, and then to propose a reconstruction of what we define as the first two epochs of this conceptualisation, starting from the indications of Koselleck and Marramao. In the conclusions, we move from Bruno Latour’s reflection and try to go beyond our never having been modern, to try to define the contours of a possible third epoch of the concept of revolution, in which we need to rethink the very structures through which we think about our belonging to the world and time.