Nel "travaglio" turbolento dell'origine: Nicole Loraux e Adriana Cavarero

The research of Nicole Loraux and Adriana Cavarero, by way of different forms and methods particular to each, presents many contact points with the critical study and excavation of classical Greece. The former has worked mainly as an anthropologist and a classical philologist, the latter as a historian of ancient philosophy and a political philosopher. Their pioneering research has interrogated the epistemic and symbolic violence of metaphysics, and, in particular, its operation of evacuating the meaning of both the generative power of the maternal body, and the contradictions inherent in the status of the feminine. In so doing, they restore both to the historical process of classical studies and to the Western philosophical tradition.