Keywords
west
civilization
insight
ergreifen
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Abstract
With the beginning of the XXth century in Germany prevailed a common ideology based on the reject of Western rationalism. It was seen an ineffective instrument to understand ancient civilizations (Greek culture, according to Nietzsche’s point of view that W. F. Otto assumed, and monumental civilizations researched by Spengler) and traditional or “primitive” civilizations (Frobenius, like researcher in African cultures). Therefore, one felt the need of a different form of understanding based on intuitive abilities, on an emotional involvement. However, in order to apply positively this view and to gain an effective awareness of the other (the “you”, writes exactly Frobenius), one realized that it was necessary “to be” the other, to get into him, to be grabbed (ergreifen) by his world and abdicate the central role of the self, Western or maybe human.
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