Outerworldliness and supernature

Abstract

From an initial explanation of the meaning and limits of Martin Heidegger’s fundamental ontology, the essay seeks to investigate the possibility of a non-anthropogenetic ontology by means of the problematic concept of outerworldliness. This research takes as a guiding thread the idea of “cosmological perspectivism”, elaborated by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro through a philosophical-anthropological interpretation of Amerindian thought. Read as the positive correlate of outerwordliness, the perspectivistical notion of supernature (the “Other’s point of view”) is contrasted to the existencial concept of being, in order to confirm and question its anthropogenetic character. The main purpose of this essay consists in unveiling, with support from a thought radically other, the “cosmopolitical” sense of the discourse on being, represented herein by Heidegger's philosophy.