Personaggio letterario e carattere "sopraindividuale": T. Mann, G.A. Borghese, V. Brancati

For the seventieth anniversary of the racial laws (1938-2008) is? held on 13-14 November in two universities in Rome (Faculty of Humanities, University of Roma-La Sapienza faculty of Humanities, University of Rome Tor Vergata), the conference ÇCultura of race and literary culture in Italy in the NovecentoÈ, organized Dear Sonia and Simona Fo and funded dallÕAssessorato the culture of Lazio Region, the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Rome La Sapienza and Tor Vergata dallÕUniversit. The Italian racial laws of 1938 were a result of biological and anthropological theories rooted in the scientific culture of the first half of the twentieth century and conveyed manuals from school and university: the conception of the individual as a member of a "" race "," what? of a "'essence'" supra,? current in European culture from the first half of the century. XX. The purpose of the conference was to investigate the impact of this "" idea man "" - which combines deterministic and positivist conception of the supra-individual entity extraction idealistic - on 'literary imagination, the role that literature had spread in the resistance and pi? often the weakness that the literary and philosophical showed respect to the suggestion that it carries. The conference? revealed cos "part and fruitful to justify the birth of the volume of the breed and Culture nellÕItalia literary culture of the twentieth century, edited by S. Gentili and S. Foa, Rome, Carocci, 2010, which also welcomes contributions proposed by other scholars, and organizes the individual pieces within the interpretive framework of the unitary costituista long introductory essay by S. Dear Culture of the breed: some conceptual structures (pp. 13-39). The following essays are distributed in sections disciplines (history of philosophy, politics and science in Part I, Culture of race and public space: the hegemonic positions and isolated voices, language issues in Part II, Languages ​​and silence. Languages ​​and superior races