«Un sentimento di terrore e di raccapriccio». Adriano Tilgher e il ‘numinoso’ di Rudolf Otto
Francesca Ferrara XX (2025), 1 Saggio After an essential reconstruction of some crucial junctures concerning the reception of Rudolf Otto’s work Das Heilige, the essay focuses on the analysis of Otto’s concept of ‘numinous’, as it emerges in the interpretation given to it by the Italian philosopher Adriano Tilgher. Compared to other intellectuals who, such […]
Adriano Tilgher. La vena tragica della vita
01/06/2024 Luigi Capitano XIX (2024), 1 Saggio Adriano Tilgher was a major figure of irrationalistic vitalism. His major influences are Leopardi, Pirandello, Simmel, and Nietzsche, amongst others. Tilgher intuits the advent of a new skeptical relativism and a dramatic loss of values. His thought revolves around the notion of ‘tragic’, which is the destruction of […]
