Cultivation as Relation: Rethinking Culture

I investigate the complex range and overlap of meanings of cultivation, and of "to cultivate", starting from their roots in the Latin family of words deriving from the Indo-European "*kwel" and from their primary meaning which was to favour natural growth, in the way of "taking care of". I do a phenomenological analysis of their uses as action, as a process and as a result for highlighting their relational structure, those can then help us to better understand human relationships, which always involve many elements and twists through time, place, context, and dispositions.