Johann Jakob Bachofen Libri

In 2 volumi. Apprezzata da Marx e Engels (che vi ravvedevano la transitorietà della vita borghese), finita al centro di un vivace dibattito antropologico, amata da poeti come Rilke e Hofmannsthal o da narratori come Broch, Hesse e Thomas Mann, difesa da pensatori come Benjamin, Adorno e Fromm, sovente ripresa dalla letteratura femminista, l'opera di Bachofen resta, pur con tutte le sue ambivalenze, un seducente filo di Arianna teso attraverso i regni del maschile e del femminile. Anche se alcuni suoi dati possono risultare oggi superati o inesatti, essa continua a restare l'esempio di un incontro straordinario con una figura mitica, la mater, con cui ogni generazione si incontra e si misura, come rileva Furio Jesi, iniziatore di questa traduzione, nel saggio che accompagna il volume.

The Swiss thinker J. J. Bachofen is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or "mother right," but that concept is only a small part of his contribution to our understanding of cultural history. This book includes an autobiographical essay and selections from An Essay on Ancient Mortuary Symbolism, Mother Right, and The Myth of Tanaquil. ?

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