Per un'antropologia della responsabilità intergenerazionale. Etica, politica e diritto in questione

Abstract

This paper focuses on some major conceptual predicaments the issue of intergenerational re-sponsibility poses. The main point which it is raised is that a genuine thinking of a justice for fu-ture generations – besides all argumentative adjustments it imposes on mainstream theories – requires a true and proper ethico- and legal-anthropological revolution. In the last two sections of the paper such a radical break will be also analysized by addressing tenets coming from a phenomenology of transcendence and futurity pivoting around Levinas's scholarship.