MARRANISMO E RIVOLTA. IL GESTO POLITICO IN QUESTIONE NELL'OPERA DI FURIO JESI

The philosophical task of the present work consists in the inquiry, in the works of Furio Jesi, of the theoretical foundations of the concept of gesture. This notion, extremely rich in meanings and nuances, can be referred to several issues: from the insurrectional gesture up to the specific poetical gesture, passing through the acts of translation, storytelling and writing. Nevertheless this work tries to develop it in a specific way: the political dimension of the gesture is here interpreted as implying the relationship between marranism and revolt. The question that sustains this work can be summarized in this way: can a gesture escape the tradition it comes from? That is to say: what does it mean to radically think the political intensity of a gesture from a philosophical point of view? The thesis provides a critical presentation of the link between mythology and literature, according to the theoretical perspective adopted by Jesi. The dialectic between mythology and literature follows the one between power of tradition and transmission – as shown in the uninterrupted flow of production of mythology – and a destituent power of linguistic gestures. The work tries to analyze those political consequences, developing its task around five chapters, through which it tries to bring into light and underline crucial theoretical knots of Jesi's works.