Deterritorializzare la cultura. Hoelderlin tra poesia, musica e geofilosofia

The purpose of this work is to analyse and to deconstruct the concept of »culture«. This concept needs a radical new articulation for the reason that, de-spite its broad use in our contemporary linguistic practices, this term, in the long tradition of its Ciceronian use (»cultura animi«), is a metaphor, strictly related to the semantic field of »land« and »earth« (lat. colere, colonia…), and this relation to that field is problematically connected to complex political issues such as »colonialism« and its totemic and tribal determinations. Moreover, great philosophical authors of the 20th century such as Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida pointed out how our use of the term »culture« is usually compromised with a specific ideology, having loosed the previous Ciceronian meaning. The presence of these three philosophical voices is justified by the fact that they engaged themselves in a famous debate on the meaning of five lines in Hölderlin’s elegy Brot und Wein, lines in which a new and philosophically challenging determination of the term "colony" occurs. In this sense, Hölderlin’s poetic work compels us to deconstruct and determine in a new way fundamental philosophical and political concepts such as »Heimat«, »Geist«, land, colony, language, translation and music.