Animality and sensitive intelligibility: A man by Oriana Falacci

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Keywords:

Animal., Literature., Crowd., Humanity.

Abstract

Along the Modernity, the massive movements and crowd have been analyzed for the estate power, lawyers and social scientists. All of them reflected about its potentialities and risks of threat the status quo.
In this text, I am working the animal traits massive movements. So, Crowd and power by Elias Canetti will be the theoretical main reference. This intellectual says that the upward rhythm is the first characteristic of the herd when its hunt. The Elias Canetti perspective talks for opposite to Gustave Le Bon and Sigmund Freud.
Then, I´ll link the animal and massive movement expressions whit literature artistic expressions. Its break the binarisms: culture/nature, instinct/reason. The focus will be in the novel A man by Oriana Falacci.

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Published

2019-12-16

How to Cite

Bonato, R. J. (2019). Animality and sensitive intelligibility: A man by Oriana Falacci. Sincronía, 24(77), 438–449. Retrieved from https://revistasincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/sincronia/article/view/554

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Vol. 24 No. 77 (2020): January-June

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LETRAS

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