Drama

Abstract

This chapter presents some political consequences of the parallel between the feminine and Judaism, on one hand, and masculine and paganism, on the other hand. Doing so, it makes clear the relevance of comparing the “smallest” or the individual level approached on the basis of the gender issue, and the “biggest,” or worldwide history, considered in the horizon of the Western tension between its two determining roots. As feminine and masculine are fulfilled in an ambivalent way through their partial transformation into their “other” so are Judaism and paganism. Before Christianity, such interlacing radically changed neither the feminine nor the masculine, nor the human world.