Thesis Chapters by Felipe Vicari
In 1861, Johan Jakob Bachofen wrote Das Muterrecht, a monumental work wherein he listed myths, le... more In 1861, Johan Jakob Bachofen wrote Das Muterrecht, a monumental work wherein he listed myths, legends and ethnographies of the Antiquity where he gathered vestiges of an ancient matriarchy that preceded classical patriarchy. This book has been partialy read by Oswald de Andrade in the 1940s, and it was crucial for the resumption of the Anthropophagy of the 1920s, the avant-garde movement that had been disowned when the brazilian writer joined the Brazilian Comunist Party. From his readings of Bachofen, Oswald postulates an “Erratics”, the sciene of the erratic vestiges, which identifies in our modern, all too modern civilization the traces of an archaic background of language and religion whose subsistence always resists against transcendence – patriarchal and messianic - and its avatars - father, God, Being, State, money – to the benefit of an ever-renewing experience of life. Swaying between Bachofen and Oswald, this work puts in ressonance the intelectual courses of these authors and of their fortune, in order to investigate the role of matriarchy in the anthropophagic program. (Text in Portuguese)
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Thesis Chapters by Felipe Vicari