«Una commozione sui generis». Su Ernesto De Martino lettore de Il Sacro di Rudolf Otto

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 theory of the sacred a peculiar interpretation.