The current ecological crisis confronts us with the need to rethink the relationship between our species and the rest of nature. Climate change – a global and anthropogenic phenomenon – compels us to reconsider the division between humans and nature that characterises Western thought. The central thesis of La filosofia come orientamento. Un nuovo senso da assegnare alla terra by Emilio Corriero is that it is precisely through this rethinking that philosophy today, in the form of an “ontology of the present”, can find a new practical-theoretical purpose. In this contribution, after outlining what is meant by "ontology of the present," I will discuss Corriero’s proposal of a processual ontology through a comparison with Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble.
