Dioses, Dios

"We are not jealous of gods, we do not serve them, we do not fear them, but at the risk of our lives, we attest for their multiple existence, and are stirred to be of their chancy keeping when they are no more remembered of". What could mean such a sentence written by René Char? Is it stil...

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Author: Cassin, Bárbara
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2008
Country:Argentina
Institution:Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
Repository:Memoria Académica (UNLP-FAHCE)
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar:snrd:Jpr3587
Online Access:https://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas/pr.3587/pr.3587.pdf
https://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/library?a=d&c=arti&d=Jpr3587
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Lingüística
Filología
Deísmo
Creencia
Religión
Monoteísmo
Politeísmo Griego
Paganismo
Monotheism
Greek Polytheism
Paganism
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Summary:"We are not jealous of gods, we do not serve them, we do not fear them, but at the risk of our lives, we attest for their multiple existence, and are stirred to be of their chancy keeping when they are no more remembered of". What could mean such a sentence written by René Char? Is it still possible to think and to experiment, here and now, after centuries of monotheism, something like a plurality of gods? What is it to be a pagan? Rereading Homer, and then Plato, Nietzsche and Lyotard, we could risk the following de´Çü nition: pagan is someone able to suppose, between performance and cosmos, that the one coming up to him is, may be, some god.