The last century: vision since 2018

Abstract

The German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, in his text: What happened in the XX century? (2018), reflected the spirit and the disappointment that it produced and that we inherited from the last centenary, as well as the fruits that should be collected for the century that we are facing today (XXI). He resorts to the concept of Anthropocene (from the Greek ἄνθρωπος and Anthropos = human-being, καινός kainos, recent or new), according to Sloterdijk coined by the Italian Stoppani and nominated by the Dutch Paul J. Crutzen: "(...) to characterize the current era from the historical-natural point of view "(Sloterdijk, 2018. p.9). According to this thinker, the previews concept emerges only for geophysics field. However