| Deriving from ancient Greek, Metábasis means “changing mutation” as a dynamic paradigm for understanding reality. Therefore it fits within the arguments of our Review, dedicated to Philosophy and Communication.
Contemporary civility, defined by many thinkers as civility of imagines, expresses itself in a continuous changing both apparent and substantial. The main purpose of our semester review is to analysing intersection domain where concepts became imagines, symbols, and myths and vice versa. In other words, we aim to propose our lectors a practical understanding of philosophical thoughts that conjugates academic needs for scientificity with the continuous changing of Communication on contemporary society.
First, we argue how a correct use of thinking, namely that offered by Philosophy, is necessary for a correct comprehension of reality. Then, we believe that the ever-changing post-technological civility compels philosophical thinking and thinkers themselves to re-think their own constitutive categories. In particular research on symbols and myths appears to be the more adequate horizon to re-interpretet those categories by which we analyse reality phenomena and to determine the possibility of an adequate understanding of the present era. This last one is characterized by constant solicitations of collective imaginary that are perpetrated by mass media, by means of symbolic constellations and archetypical structures. Those last two have a considerable impact on individuals, creating in them a strong value and psycho-emotional involvement. In a world where desacralisation and deideologisation process seems already achieved, to the Man seeking Nietzschean transmutation of all values, it doesn’t rest anything else than confronting himself with mythical and symbolic domain. So that, from there, he should be able to get the universal and imaginative dimension which is necessary in order to redefine relational and value fundaments on which every society seems to be grounded.
Under this research perspective, Metabasis Review wishes to contribute to a new research methodology able to study and analyse those cultural and intellectual phenomena.
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