Landscape Politics — Utopia and Reality^*

University of Évora, Portugal

Abstract: We can read in the First International Conference of Landscape Philosophy announcement, which took place in Lisbon in 2019 that we are now in the emergence of a concept for a new planetary Era, the so-called Anthropocene, which describes the tremendous influence of humankind in the transformation of the Earth. The reflection on this global “anthropocenization” requires a comprehensive way of thinking about landscape through a new human mediation, the rapprochement of politics to the territory and from the society to the landscape in all its dimensions. However, it also requires the fundamental contribution of the Academy to rejoin the totality, providing the theoretical and reflective framework, to relink in a new way what was never really separated — Man and Nature. Also, let us ask the landscape philosophy the understanding of the intersection of needs and demands between transcendence and immanence, as a contribution to opening the Anthropocene to other needs that in the end can transform a catastrophic dynamic into a new dynamic of understanding the Earth. After all, in which Anthropocene landscape will a child born today live, whose life expectancy is the end of the century?