Wholly Other

«Totalmente altro» e crisi della schematizzazione. Su un luogo decisivo della teoria della religione di Rudolf Otto

In this paper I will argue that Rudolf Otto’s theory of religion is characterized by a tension between the notion of ‘Numinous’ and that of ‘Wholly Other’. This tension emerges especially in the difficult passage of The Holy, in which Otto defines the relationship between ‘rational’ and ‘irrational’ in terms of schematization.

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