Storia della filosofia della nascita: I. Dai Greci a Nietzsche

Birth is, for everyone, the extraordinary experience of access to human life, and as such is a concept with philosophical potential. Yet Western thought has mostly focused on death as a fundamental ontological condition and only sporadically on birth, although this leaves a significant trace. A subterranean current, laden with meaning, investigated here for the first time in a systematic manner in a pathway that goes from ancient Greece (the Silenus, Sappho, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus...) to the Old Testament (Jeremiah, Job, Qoèlet... ), from Gnosticism to medieval Christian thought and humanistic-Renaissance thought, with forays into modernity and the 19th century, through some of its most profound interpreters (Arthur Schopenhauer, Giacomo Leopardi, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche...). An interpretation of the birth event capable of opening up multiple perspectives, both to the ‘feminine’ and to the ‘masculine’: birth as a philosophical category, indicating the ‘beginning’ but also the ‘rebirth’, rises to a figure of the human, allowing for an anthropological, ethical and theological reading