Albas de un nuevo sentir

La condición neocontemplativa

Abstract

Raffaele Milani, Albas de un nuevo sentir. La condición neocontemplativa, edited and with a prologue by Iván Moure Pazos, translated by Cristina Lesmes, Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2023. Originally published in Italy in 2020, this essay by aesthetics professor and landscape specialist Raffaele Milani diagnoses the emergence of a neo-contemplative condition in contemporary culture, set against the perversion of the contemplative spirit brought about by digital virtuality. Milani argues that immersion in virtual environments and hyperreality—following Baudrillard—has separated the subject from authentic contact with nature and has eroded the capacity to see, hear, and contemplate as sources of genuine aesthetic experience. The reviewer assesses the work very positively, highlighting its careful editing and the lucidity with which it proposes recovering a harmonious vision of art and life as a response to the disorientation of the contemporary world.