Death suits you well. Cultural imaginary and modernizing rationality in the ritual of death
Abstract
In contemporary times, the assumption of a technical–scientific model of development carries out transformations that affect the cultural imaginary. Postmodern consciousness, that expression of "uprooting of forms and men" in the words of Renato Ortiz, would realize the change in the ways that express the mourning rites.
One set of problems arise as relevant: how the scientific–technical reason – what Max Weber called the "intellectualization" – has expelled death of social life? And in particular, how this "removal" is represented in aesthetic manifestations? What strategies of hegemony and resistance are visible, and how can constitute identities?
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