"The cry. It is at the beginning of the life of man on earth. The cry of hunting, of war, of love, of terror, of joy, of pain, of death. But animals also cry out; and for primitive man, the wind and the earth, the cloud and the sea, the tree, the stone, the river also cry out. But only man gathers around his own cry, in the absence of the events that provoked it. The decisive aspects of existence are linked to the cry, and in the evocation of the cry, the most ancient human communities not only see the fabric that forms them, but also permanently tie the threads of the fabric, that is, they establish and confirm themselves as human communities. The entire life of the most ancient peoples revolves around the evocation of the cry, that is, around song; and song envelops the living much more closely than the warmth of the fires around which they gather. (p. 41)."
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Emanuele Severino (26 February 1929 – 17 January 2020) was an Italian philosopher, a disciple of Gustavo Bontadini.
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