The inner life of time. Nature across generations

This contribution proposes to reflect on a different way of considering the link be- tween temporality and nature, between aiôn and physis, in dialogue with the words and works of the Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone. The basic idea is the following: we will not be able to essentially determine our cognitive and experien- tial relationship with nature, until we are able to know, experience and represent the time inscribed in being itself. The philosophical tradition has developed its con- ception of temporality mainly along two lines: a “cosmic” line, of a physical, ob- jective temporality, and a “phenomenological” one, of a temporality as an internal articulation of human consciousness. Through the archaeological and conceptual excavation carried out by Penone, we will ask ourselves what it does mean to take care of the “subjective time of things”.