De Martino e l’Antropocene
This article discusses Ernesto De Martino’s reflections on the end of the world and shows their being perfectly organic to the present-day ‘culture of the Anthropocene’, concerned as it is with the sense of its own ending. While first presenting the end of the world as a physiological cultural them...
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This article discusses Ernesto De Martino’s reflections on the end of the world and shows their being perfectly organic to the present-day ‘culture of the Anthropocene’, concerned as it is with the sense of its own ending. While first presenting the end of the world as a physiological cultural theme, which appears in every culture based on either a cyclical or a linear conception of time, De Martino – as this article explains – later came to a more dramatic interpretation, reading the end of the world as an upsetting anthropological risk. To overcome it, he ideated the concept of ‘ethical time’, which allowed to envisage a new kind of history, no longer linked to a particular society or culture, but concerning the whole humanity.
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| spelling | doaj.art-976275c530364f12b6f1f18aec4d22452022-12-28T17:06:12ZdeuUniversità degli Studi di TorinoCoSMO2281-66582022-12-012110.13135/2281-6658/7209De Martino e l’AntropoceneFrancesco Remotti0Università di Torino This article discusses Ernesto De Martino’s reflections on the end of the world and shows their being perfectly organic to the present-day ‘culture of the Anthropocene’, concerned as it is with the sense of its own ending. While first presenting the end of the world as a physiological cultural theme, which appears in every culture based on either a cyclical or a linear conception of time, De Martino – as this article explains – later came to a more dramatic interpretation, reading the end of the world as an upsetting anthropological risk. To overcome it, he ideated the concept of ‘ethical time’, which allowed to envisage a new kind of history, no longer linked to a particular society or culture, but concerning the whole humanity. https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/7209Ernesto De MartinoEnd of the WorldAnthropoceneSense of an EndingEternal ReturnEthical Time |
| spellingShingle | Francesco Remotti De Martino e l’Antropocene CoSMO Ernesto De Martino End of the World Anthropocene Sense of an Ending Eternal Return Ethical Time |
| title | De Martino e l’Antropocene |
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| title_fullStr | De Martino e l’Antropocene |
| title_full_unstemmed | De Martino e l’Antropocene |
| title_short | De Martino e l’Antropocene |
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| topic | Ernesto De Martino End of the World Anthropocene Sense of an Ending Eternal Return Ethical Time |
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