The philosophical «contradiction» of the landscape. Rilke, Florenskij, Guardini and the problem of the man-world relationship

Landscape as a philosophical theme is based on a contradiction: that of being at the same time a portion of Land, which however refers to a totality. this contradiction is linked to the origin of the landscape. after the break between man and cosmos, subject and object in the Renaissance period, man discovers nature as a landscape. It is the result of this division and therefore lends itself to being interpreted both as a projection of the modern subject (Florenskij) and as a way of resisting the loss of the original unity (Ritter). the two opposing possibilities, which have their roots in the initial contradiction, can be read together if interpreted as a dual way of recovering a home, at the time of the cosmic break between subject and world.