ovdje - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

U ovom akademskom putovanju kroz vrijeme vratit ćemo se na početke
zapadne civilizacije i, primjenjujući mitološke aspekte (eko)feminizma,
pokušati definirati razloge zbog kojih žene od pamtivijeka do danas imaju
sekundarnu poziciju u punopravnome, naoko rodno jednakome, društvu.
TIMELESS SPELL OF
WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFTING
We all know who witches are. Eccentric crones flying around on their
broomsticks, wearing pointy hats, casting spells with their wands, brewing
potions in cauldrons, consulting with old, mouldy tomes and keeping frogs
and owls as familiars. Harry Potter carefully took all of these archetypical
figures in arms and immortalized this Western fairytale dream of the witch
and the wizard. But what really happened here? How did such archetypal
figures form in the West and why do they still live so vividly in our imagination?
Medieval and Reformation scholars considered the Devil and all of his
works a very real threat. Their conviction that witches were the servants of
Satan led to the formation of one of the greatest conspiracy theories of all
times – a belief that witches were working in alliance with Satan against
the entire Christian world. Witches were transformed from deluded crones,
who danced at night with old pagan goddess Diana, into heretics, worshipers
of the Devil, who became the centre of campaign to seek out and
destroy all evil, throughout all of Europe, regardless of actual guilt.
In this academic time-travel we will go back to the beginnings of the
Western civilization, and, using mythical aspects of (eco)feminism, try to
define the reasons why women had, and in some cases, still have a secondary
role in a supposedly gender-equal society.
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