Dove va il disorientamento?

This interview between Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Piergiorgio Donatelli explores the contemporary experience of disorientation as a philosophical, ethical, and political condition. Starting from Kant’s question of how to orient oneself in thought, Donatelli examines the crisis of democratic universalism and the fragility of moral languages that have come to function as empty vocabularies detached from lived practices. Drawing on Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Foucault, he argues that universality is not a given but the outcome of partial struggles, forms of life, and concrete experiences of suffering and injustice. The discussion addresses the retreat into private life, the ambivalent role of media and television series, and the impact of technological and ecological transformations. Disorientation emerges not only as a loss of bearings, but also as a critical opportunity to reclaim responsibility, reinhabit ordinary practices, and rearticulate shared norms within fragile democratic worlds.