Ricerc@Sapienza

The essay aims to show how the notion of mètis could work as an interpretative tool philosophically fruitful in view for a new understanding of some fundamental theoretical-problematic knots revolving around the Baudelairean theme of the flâneur: the question of the relationship between mind and world; the need of rethinking the critical function of art within a reality more and more commercialized and homologated; the motif of sense and its link to the dimension of contingency.