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Spartakus. Simbologia della rivolta
19,00 €160 PAGINEFURIO JESISPARTAKUSSIMBOLOGIE DELLA RIVOLTAA cura di ANDREA CAVALLETTI
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Furio Jesi scrisse Spartakus nel 1969, a mezzo secolo dalla sollevazione comunista a Berlino e dalla sua rapida e cruenta repressione. Questo libro non è però una storia di quell’evento gravido di conseguenze, ma una riflessione appassionata sul fenomeno insurrezionale, sui suoi caratteri, simboli e miti.
Tutto qui ruota intorno alla definizione della rivolta, che Jesi distingue in maniera assolutamente peculiare dalla rivoluzione. Se questa interviene infatti nel pieno procedere della storia, e comporta una strategia a lungo termine, la rivolta è un’autentica «sospensione del tempo storico» in cui «ogni atto vale per sé stesso», indipendentemente dai suoi sviluppi. Spartakus ricostruisce così gli ultimi giorni di Rosa Luxemburg e Karl Liebknecht e, nel ritmo serrato della prosa, l’alternarsi delle cariche lungo le vie berlinesi, ma rilegge intanto anche Mann e Brecht, Dostoevskij e Nietzsche, Eliade e Bakunin, offrendo una teoria della politica e del mito, del teatro e della scrittura.
Scoperto fra le carte di Jesi dopo che un’intricata vicenda editoriale l’aveva nascosto per trent’anni, Spartakus rinasce ora in una veste rinnovata e ampliata, che rende omaggio al grande mitologo e germanista prematuramente scomparso. Un articolo raro e illuminante su Rosa Luxemburg e il «giusto tempo della rivoluzione» arricchisce infatti questa nuova edizione, e dona riflessi inconsueti a un’analisi già vivissima e originale che – come tutte le gemme del pensiero – riesce ancora a parlare ai nostri giorni.
ACQUISTA
Furio Jesi scrisse Spartakus nel 1969, a mezzo secolo dalla sollevazione comunista a Berlino e dalla sua rapida e cruenta repressione. Questo libro non è però una storia di quell’evento gravido di conseguenze, ma una riflessione appassionata sul fenomeno insurrezionale, sui suoi caratteri, simboli e miti.
Tutto qui ruota intorno alla definizione della rivolta, che Jesi distingue in maniera assolutamente peculiare dalla rivoluzione. Se questa interviene infatti nel pieno procedere della storia, e comporta una strategia a lungo termine, la rivolta è un’autentica «sospensione del tempo storico» in cui «ogni atto vale per sé stesso», indipendentemente dai suoi sviluppi. Spartakus ricostruisce così gli ultimi giorni di Rosa Luxemburg e Karl Liebknecht e, nel ritmo serrato della prosa, l’alternarsi delle cariche lungo le vie berlinesi, ma rilegge intanto anche Mann e Brecht, Dostoevskij e Nietzsche, Eliade e Bakunin, offrendo una teoria della politica e del mito, del teatro e della scrittura.
Scoperto fra le carte di Jesi dopo che un’intricata vicenda editoriale l’aveva nascosto per trent’anni, Spartakus rinasce ora in una veste rinnovata e ampliata, che rende omaggio al grande mitologo e germanista prematuramente scomparso. Un articolo raro e illuminante su Rosa Luxemburg e il «giusto tempo della rivoluzione» arricchisce infatti questa nuova edizione, e dona riflessi inconsueti a un’analisi già vivissima e originale che – come tutte le gemme del pensiero – riesce ancora a parlare ai nostri giorni.
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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About the author
Furio Jesi
57 books15 followersFurio Jesi (May 19, 1941 - June 17, 1980) was an Italian historian, writer, archaeologist, germanist and philosopher.
The only son of "war hero" Bruno Jesi, Furio Jesi was an independent scholar of myth, Egyptology, history of Mediterranean religions, philology and archeology, most notable for his work on extending the ideas of Karl Kerényi including studies of the science of myth and the difference between classic Myths and "Technified Myths".
With no formal degree, Jesi published, beginning at the age of 15, a series of studies on the world of ancient Greece and Egypt, including on the topic of mythological themes and mystery cults. His focus on the consistency of myths in modern times has influenced political activists like the Wu Ming collective in Italy.
Jesi was also an active translator and consultant for Italian publishers on the topic of German literature.
Jesi died at age 39 carbon monoxide poisoning at his home in Genoa, Italy.
The only son of "war hero" Bruno Jesi, Furio Jesi was an independent scholar of myth, Egyptology, history of Mediterranean religions, philology and archeology, most notable for his work on extending the ideas of Karl Kerényi including studies of the science of myth and the difference between classic Myths and "Technified Myths".
With no formal degree, Jesi published, beginning at the age of 15, a series of studies on the world of ancient Greece and Egypt, including on the topic of mythological themes and mystery cults. His focus on the consistency of myths in modern times has influenced political activists like the Wu Ming collective in Italy.
Jesi was also an active translator and consultant for Italian publishers on the topic of German literature.
Jesi died at age 39 carbon monoxide poisoning at his home in Genoa, Italy.
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January 26, 2025Banners stitched with emblems, beware the 'paladins of reaction' who prowl amongst us. Jesi's famously protean tracings (not to distract from their vision; his insistence on the unknowable dimensions of life and myth - and their eruptive fusion in struggle - is always well italicised) are acute in both caution and conviction. The intractable aporia of revolt and the dark threat of subsumption under the enemy's gaze. The stunning, useless clarity of existential choice and the collective epiphany which cleanses us of the great burdens of historical existence. Untimely meditations on the militant. Joys of grandeur.
August 16, 2022
An interesting exploration of mythic time as it relates to historical time, correlated respectively to revolt and revolution. Jesi is best characterized as a kind of Left-Eliadean thinker, and even if we don't accept the details of his left-wing appropriation of myth with its ominous insinuations of self-sacrifice, it is a merit of the argument that it criticizes the tendency of Marxism to be caught flat-footed when faced with seemingly reactionary narratives.
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Take two. Adding a star. Jesi's argument can't be dismissed as romanticizing myth and revolt. A lot of people on the left are obsessed with riot porn. Jesi isn't content with this, and formulates a theory of the symbolic space of revolt. In the insurrectionary struggles that punctuate historical time,
"Everyone experiences the epiphany of the same symbols—everyone’s individual space, dominated by one’s personal symbols, by the shelter from historical time that everyone enjoys in their individual symbology and mythology, expands, becoming the symbolic space common to an
entire collective, the shelter from historical time in which the collective finds safety."
If we want to understand revolts we need to investigate how they produce and circulate symbols. Jesi's main example is Rosa Luxemburg, and the text convincingly argues that she deliberately turned herself into a symbol. For her, proletarian struggle doesn't succeed in a single climax. We only emancipate ourselves from the conditioning of the bourgeoisie if we are able to turn their weapons against them.
***
Take two. Adding a star. Jesi's argument can't be dismissed as romanticizing myth and revolt. A lot of people on the left are obsessed with riot porn. Jesi isn't content with this, and formulates a theory of the symbolic space of revolt. In the insurrectionary struggles that punctuate historical time,
"Everyone experiences the epiphany of the same symbols—everyone’s individual space, dominated by one’s personal symbols, by the shelter from historical time that everyone enjoys in their individual symbology and mythology, expands, becoming the symbolic space common to an
entire collective, the shelter from historical time in which the collective finds safety."
If we want to understand revolts we need to investigate how they produce and circulate symbols. Jesi's main example is Rosa Luxemburg, and the text convincingly argues that she deliberately turned herself into a symbol. For her, proletarian struggle doesn't succeed in a single climax. We only emancipate ourselves from the conditioning of the bourgeoisie if we are able to turn their weapons against them.
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January 2, 2026Li a edição da vs. traduzida por João Coles
gostei muito dos capítulos iniciais, especialmente quando contrasta a revolta com a revolução temporalmente e quando toca na relação entre o mito e o poeta, mesmo que brevemente. De resto, muito me passou ao lado.
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gostei muito dos capítulos iniciais, especialmente quando contrasta a revolta com a revolução temporalmente e quando toca na relação entre o mito e o poeta, mesmo que brevemente. De resto, muito me passou ao lado.
Voltarei a ler
December 5, 2019
Jesi ocupa como ejemplo el Levantamiento Espartaquista (uno de los tantos hechos sintetizados en lo que se llama la Revolución de Noviembre) para graficar la diferencia de dos tipos de sublevaciones: la revuelta y la revolución
Bajo esta misma mirada, pensando siempre en el Mito como leitmotiv en el libro, se realiza un análisis a diversos autores literarios
Bajo esta misma mirada, pensando siempre en el Mito como leitmotiv en el libro, se realiza un análisis a diversos autores literarios
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