«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 […]
«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 […]
