The main fruit of prof. Geatano Chiurazzi's research during his scholarship at the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies was the preparation of a book entitled 'Seconda natura. Da Lascaux al digitale'. According to the reading, prehistoric art represents what, following Hegel, we can call 'second nature': the world of objectification of the spirit that structures our social, ethical and political life from representations of reality and technological creations to contemporary digital technologies.

The question posed by the book is how the transition to this secondness was possible and what it means. Why is secondaryism possible and how should it be understood? In contrast to the various monisms and naturalisms that litter the contemporary philosophical scene, which tend to obliterate all forms of dualism, it is argued here that a certain dualism is inevitable after all. A dualism that is not substantive but modal: one that produces a distinction between fact and meaning, reality and idea.

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