Il mondo tra relazione e interpretazione: la filosofia alla prova dei fatti

The paper starts from a critique of the vision proposed by new realism, accord- ing to which “the world does not exist”, in order to try to develop an ametaphysical concept of the world, understood as an event that unfolds in a contextual opening of significance. Based on some intuitions of Wittgenstein and Heidegger, a concept of the world as a gedeutete Welt is outlined, a world understood and interpreted as already full of meanings and references. In this way, it becomes clear that our relationship with the world is primarily philosophical, because it is primarily in- terpretative. Philosophy is not an elitist practice, an intellectual performance, but fundamentally, the only possibility to put into practice – by understanding – the relationship with the world that we constitute and which at the same time consti- tutes us. The opposition between fact and interpretation supported by new realism can thus be superseded in favour of an interpretation that is already a fact.