Il tempo del mondo. Il Weltinnenraum di Rainer Maria Rilke

In Rainer Maria Rilke’s work the Weltinnenraum is not an inner space of the world, but an inner space made up of world, therefore not a place in which interiority claims to save human frailty by making it eternal in representative objectification, but a possibility, a project of sense, a fundamental experience, reachable only through authentic, and no longer functionalistic-instrumental, contact with things. The search for a contact with things leads to a way of thinking about time which in turn makes it possible to relate to the world in an authentic way: only time makes the distance – that Rilke believes necessary to think things – ineradicable.