«Una commozione sui generis». Su Ernesto De Martino lettore de Il Sacro di Rudolf Otto
Francesca Ferrara XVI (2021), 2 Saggio The essay aims to highlight how Rudolf Otto’s work Das Heilige (1917) represented for Ernesto de Martino an opportunity of theoretical confrontation that runs through his entire re ection. Concepts such as «ganz Anderes», «numinous», «tremendum» and «fascinans», originally brought to attention by Otto, found in Ernesto de Martino’s […]
L’opera-cantiere di Ernesto De Martino. Intervista a Marcello Massenzio
Massimiliano Biscuso XIV (2019), 2 Intervista In the following interview, Marcello Massenzio, president of Associazione Internazionale “Ernesto De Martino”, talks about the characteristics and importance of De Martino’s posthumous work La ne del mondo (The End of theWorld) and reconstructs the complex editorial story of this book, which is also part of Italian (and French) […]
Il mondo magico dei gephyrismi eleusini
Chiara Cappiello XIII (2018), 2 Saggio The paper analyses the link between magic and religion in Ernesto De Martino’s thought, starting from his thesis on gephyrismi eleusini. The thesis – published for the first time in its original version in <<Archivio di storia della cultura>> (31, 2018) – shows a conception of religion already charismatic […]
L’autenticità della presenza. De Martino critico di Heidegger
Sergio Fabio Berardini XIII (2018), 2 Saggio In this article I will discuss the relationship between the italian ethnologist Ernesto De Martino (1908-1965) and the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). In particular, my aim is to argue against the thesis for which De Martino’s philosophical tought is largely inspired by Heidegger’s existential analytic, and consequentially […]
Labirinti della modernità: Ernesto De Martino e l’Apocalisse dell’Occidente
Giuseppe Maccauro XIII (2018), 2 Saggio Among several themes of De Martino’s research, a remarkable interest is addressed to the theme of the crisis of western society. The paper focuses on the analysis of the works where De Martino proposes his hypothesis of <<umanesimo etnografico>> as the cure of ‘civilization and its discontents’. Scarica il […]
