Silvano Tagliagambe – Dal caos al cosmo. Introduzione al cosmismo russo

preface by Armando Torno

«Cosmism is the miracle of a synthesis that saw the light two centuries ago, then fueled by the Soviet space race. An attitude more than a real current, a crossroads of experiences and researches ranging from esoteric futurism to transcendental pragmatism, from magical realism to idealistic materialism, from humanism to transhumanism. A school of thought against world westernization and the colonization of consciences». A. Scarabelli

THE BOOK: Behind Margaret’s extraordinary flight over Moscow in Bulgakov’s most famous novel, behind Marc Chagall’s depiction of love as a flying couple in the deep blue of the skies that makes us enter a dreamlike world with infinite solutions, behind the general idea of flight as a way of inhabiting history according to the dimensions of a strongly spatialized time there is an entire culture. Russian culture, crossed in its history, philosophy, science and even technology by the leitmotif of flight. Flight gave rise to cosmism, the authentic and original cornerstone of that culture, born from the propensity not only to imagine, but to see an intermediate space between earth and sky, between the finite and the infinite, between the visible and the invisible, and from the desire to plough it first with imagination and thought. then with the material products of cosmonautics, a technique of navigation in outer space, which was also the expression of a spiritual utopia.

Silvano Tagliagambe (Legnano , 1945) Philosopher, physicist, academic, epistemologist. A pupil of Ludovico Geymonat, he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan and continued his studies specializing in Quantum Physics first at the prestigious Lomonosov University of Moscow, then at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His scientific and teaching activity developed through a varied university career that led him to teach at various universities from 1974 to 2008 and to collaborate with different research centers and institutional bodies as a scientific consultant. He is the author of more than three hundred and fifty publications.

Armando Torno (Milan, 1953) Journalist, essayist and radio host. Graduated in Mathematics and Philosophy, after having been an academic researcher, he chose the path of journalism. He founded the supplement “Domenica” of Il Sole 24 Ore, of which he was editor and columnist from 1985 to 2000. After directing several programs in Rai, he has continued to host the program “Musica Maestro” on Radio 24 for over 15 years. He is the author of many literary works and essays of a philosophical and theological nature that have been translated into French, English, German, Russian and many other languages.