To Get Free from Roots

Abstract

Trough this essay the Author proposes a critic to the actual principle of the necessity of “roots” for human being. This expression, which has a symbolic character, in the romantic and post romantic German culture, got a peculiar meaning: if became concrete. The man was considered a tree and his highest values were expressed through the dangerous expression “Blut und Boden” (ground and blood). The consequence was a kind of damnation for the free bourgeois, the citizen of the new urban reality, and specifcally the Hebrew. Now it doesn’t mean that the man must not have roots, no past, no traditions, but that, being aware of them, he must be able to get free form them, in spatial like in temporal sense. In order to move in the world, like a nomad, as he always was, to create culture, that means to give the landscape his image and his values.