Cervino

Year: 2002 Pages: 82 Henri Maldiney is to be considered one of the greatest philosophers of our times. His unmistakable style distinguishes "the Matterhorn", an essay that narrates the most famous of the western mountains in a profound and surprising way. A challenge similar to that of the extreme mountaineer. In the alternation of expansion of its contours and concentration within them, the mountain creates a mutual exchange of earth and sky in which their fundamental unity appears, prior to the establishment of each of the two as a closed entity in itself. We thus witness the manifestation of a diffusive space made up of an ascending diastolic momentum and a descending systolic gathering, inseparable from each other. In this sense it is not wrong to say that the appearance of the mountain induces a complete transformation of the interval between heaven and earth: it does not happen in this "between", but it is its foundation, it makes the two simultaneous and ties them into a single form. directions that go from one to the other and vice versa, thus putting an end to their antagonism, their uncomfortable ambivalence.