La maschera e la morte. Sulla categoria di impersonale, da una prospettiva storico-culturale

This contribution proposes an analysis of the “person”
category starting from the anthropological
theories conceived by three authors: Thomas
Macho, Marcel Mauss and Karl Meuli. By means
of a detailed study of some of their paradigmatic
texts, an autonomous interpretation of the concept
of “impersonal” will be presented, connecting
its meaning to the idea of death intended from a
culturological perspective. Conceived as the background
of past generations determining the position
of the unborn child in the society he or she belongs
to, death becomes the “impersonal” at the
core of the whole essay.