Politics of inactivity from the contemplation of nature in L’allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti

Abstract

The following article explores the contemplative dimension of the poetry of the Italian Giuseppe Ungaretti and attempts to link it to the recently published praise of inactivity by Byung-Chul Han and his concept of the politics of inactivity. We obtain the corpus of the poems from L'allegria and search for fragments in the text that refer to the image of tranquility and melancholy from the observation of nature. The reading of the elements and imaginations of Gastón Bachelard will also be used as a theoretical basis. The above in search of the construction of a poetics of nothingness and the contemplation of the organic that works as an alternative to capitalist hyperactivity and speed.