ABSTRACT
The global viral epidemic COVID-19, which has progressively invested all continents since January 2020, has shown the bankrupt cruelty of the typically predatory neoliberal economic model, built on the plundering of natural resources and the destruction of the biosphere and the planet. A philosophical perspective for the contemporary world and for future generations must think of new paradigms of coexistence starting from the living body, a “singular plural” political entity that founds the community, and from the con-tact between bodies as an expression of the sense of the “in-common.” Jean-Luc Nancy’s haptic ontology, reread through Irigaray and Derrida, identifies the experience of touching as the basis of inter-human relations and that of breathing as a shared right between humanity and the biosphere.
