Jacques Derrida e la “farmacia” di Platone. Quale futuro per la ragione occidentale?

Unprecedented conflicts and new authoritarianism undermine trust in the fundamental values of democracy. Western rationality is being challenged in its primacy, showing a weakness hitherto well-guarded behind the universal logic of the concept. What future is then imaginable for our philosophical reason? An interesting suggestion is offered by Jacques Derrida's Pharmacie de Platon (1968). In a comparison with the Phaedrus and the myth of writing, he highlights a founding structure of Western thought: a binary and conflicting logic, rooted in the interweaving of reason and violence. The pharmakon that Plato bequeathed to us and on which we still need to question.