Metafisica dopo la storia della metafisica? Analogia subiecti e nutrimento in Marco Maria Olivetti

Marco Maria Olivetti’s proposal of an «analogy of the subject» rethinks the classical doctrine of an analogy of being inside the framework of modern subjective philosophy. But the transcendental subject of the Kantian and Husserlian tradition has to be understood – according to him – as one which, following Levinas and Casper, is temporal and linguistic. The univocal and solipsistic presence is therefore scattered in a pluralistic horizon. The subject is constituted as such only by means of another subject who «analogates» him/her trough a verbal address; and, even before that, through the nutrition of the body. Speaking is in fact conceived by Olivetti as a form of feeding. He finds here an irreducible phenomenon. Any effort to establish a first philosophy can only start from this fact.