«Eroine della modernità»: Presenze femminili nel «Passagenwerk» di Walter Benjamin
Along the lines of material collected by Walter Benjamin in his so-called Passagenwerk, this paper attempts to illuminate the intense relationship between 19th-century Paris and the many types of women inhabiting it. After a first analysis of the symbolic figures of the prostitute and...
| Published in: | Annali di studi religiosi |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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2006
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Annali di studi religiosi
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| Summary: | Along the lines of material collected by Walter Benjamin in his so-called Passagenwerk, this paper attempts to illuminate the intense relationship between 19th-century Paris and the many types of women inhabiting it. After a first analysis of the symbolic figures of the prostitute and the lesbian, the experience of Claire Démar, a Saint-Simonianist activist, is reconstructed: the three investigations share the thesis according to which modernity is the backdrop for the «sorrowful game» of the female body. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-3892 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di studi religiosi
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