Evoluzione delle relazioni familiari e intime in Europa: uno sguardo comparativo tra il Settecento aristocratico e l'Ottocento borghese
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Bertero, Giulio <1997>
Date
2023-10-16Data available
2023-10-19Abstract
Nel corso della mia tesi triennale, ho intrapreso un viaggio di scoperta e riflessione che mira a far emergere una profonda metamorfosi che ha permeato non solo le pieghe della vita privata europea, ma ha gettato le sue radici su scala globale. Questo argomento è, nonostante la sua innegabile importanza storica e l'impatto tangibile sulla società, spesso relegato nell'ombra del tabù.
Per indagare sul tema del mio elaborato mi sono rapportato con il filone storiografico riguardante gli studi sulle emozioni. La storia delle emozioni, che trova in William Reddy un’importante voce, è stata, come spiega lo stesso Reddy, accantonata per molto tempo. Secondo l’autore, per anni si è persa l’importanza che hanno avuto le emozioni nell’influenzare i fatti storici e politici, in particolare il ruolo del sentimentalismo nel periodo pre-rivoluzionario:
Not only were emotions rejected, their very historical role was overlooked and denied. Gradually, sentimentalism as an intellectual and political program was rejected, then forgotten; it was erased from the history books, until recent research (much of it inspired by new interest in gender) began to rediscover it.
Nella parte centrale del ‘900, come ci ricorda anche la riflessione di Serena Ferente , le emozioni sono prevalentemente oggetto di studi degli antropologi più che degli storici. Antropologi che però analizzano le emozioni come fattore culturale e non come fattore impattante negli eventi storici. Nella nuova fioritura della storia delle emozioni troviamo il lavoro di Reddy che, tra i suoi punti cardine, identifica come fondamentali quelli che lui chiama emotional refuges. Reddy, storico del Settecento e dell’Ottocento, individua questi rifugi emotivi nei circoli, negli ambienti in cui le diverse correnti di emozioni possono vivere senza andare a intaccare il regime emotivo in vigore. In the course of my three-year thesis, I have embarked on a journey of discovery and reflection that aims to bring to light a profound metamorphosis that has not only permeated the folds of European private life, but has taken root on a global scale. This topic is, despite its undeniable historical importance and tangible impact on society, often relegated to the shadows of taboo.
In order to investigate the topic of my paper, I related to the historiographical strand concerning emotion studies. The history of emotions, which finds an important voice in William Reddy, has, as Reddy himself explains, been shelved for a long time. According to the author, the importance of emotions in influencing historical and political events was lost for years, particularly the role of sentimentality in the pre-revolutionary period:
Not only were emotions rejected, their very historical role was overlooked and denied. Gradually, sentimentalism as an intellectual and political programme was rejected, then forgotten; it was erased from the history books, until recent research (much of it inspired by new interest in gender) began to rediscover it.
In the central part of the 20th century, as Serena Ferente's reflection also reminds us, the emotions are mainly the subject of studies by anthropologists rather than historians. Anthropologists, however, analysed the emotions as a cultural factor and not as an impacting factor in historical events. In the new flowering of the history of emotions, we find the work of Reddy who, among his pivotal points, identifies what he calls emotional refuges as fundamental. Reddy, a historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, identifies these emotional refuges in the circles, in the environments in which the different currents of emotions can live without affecting the emotional regime in force.
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- Laurea Triennale [2447]