Citation

Castelli A. Part. Answ. 2023; 21(2): 215-240.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Johns Hopkins University Press)

DOI

10.1353/pan.2023.a899741

PMID

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Abstract

Emile Durkheim was the first scholar to treat suicide as a sociological phenomenon, collective rather than private, thus illustrating the failure of modern individualism. This paper demonstrates that the tragic endings of Goethe’s Werther and Foscolo’s Jacopo Ortis anticipate Durkheim’s suicide classification: Goethe and Foscolo created heroes whose tragic action accords with the basic elements belonging to Durkheim’s typologies.

Language: en