Nel mercato dei non saggi: lo sfruttamento della vita in Dante (Primi accenni per una ricerca)

Abstract

This article explores the possibility that the introduction of human exploitation within the labor process and the consequent appearance in society of the man-commodity may have left traces in Dante’s works. Looking at selected passages, the essay recognizes the problems that such a process creates for the rising conception of individual identity and for the adoption – in a still sacralized ideological framework – of the distinction between the public and private domains that characterized capitalism until a few decades ago.