Abstract

Gembillo describes Serres’ criticism of cultural parasitism, in an attempt to heal the fracture between the «two cultures» and achieve «thinking with one’s own head». Sonaglia examines two figures from Serres’ repertoire, unexpected and paradoxical outcomes of parasitism: the disobedient and the lame left-handed, both two «beginnings of a new man». Rignani reads The Parasite as a workbook on absences and untimeliness, as an open window on the fruitfulness of risk and gamble, towards a new «anthropological logic».