Cultivating Wonder at the End of the World.
There is an essential question that overwhelms us when everything around us collapses and chaos seems to spread: how can we move forward without going crazy? This book is certainly not a survival manual for times of crisis with definitive solutions and clear instructions, but an inquiry into the human spirit that will help us discover the practices of cultural resistance that continue to bloom and grow among the cracks of the apocalypse and that astonish us precisely for this reason. Andrea Colamedici and Maura Gancitano take us on a philosophical and critical journey that documents the “flowers” that arise in the most unlikely places. A book to discover that uncertainty can turn into a precious tool, that wonder is not dead, and that there are many gardeners in the world ready to cultivate it with senseless stubbornness and joy, confirming that the human spirit, despite everything, continues to generate beauty and meaning even when it knows it is all in vain.
Andrea Colamedici and Maura Gancitano, philosophers and writers, are the founders of Tlon, a cultural project that combines publishing, education, and research, with the aim of bringing philosophy back into the public debate. With their books, podcasts, and events, they have contributed to spreading new languages to think about the present. For HarperCollins, in addition to Botany of Wonder (2025), they have published Free Yourself from the Good Girl (2019), Take it with Philosophy (2021), and But Why Am I Doing This? (2023).
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