Abstract

With the beginning of the XXth century in Germany prevailed a common ideology based on the reject of Western rationalism. It was seen an ineffective instrument to understand ancient civilizations and traditional or “primitive” civilizations. Therefore, one felt the need of a different form of understanding based on intuitive abilities, on an emotional involvement. However, in order to apply positively this view and to gain an effective awareness of the other, one realized that it was necessary “to be” the other, to get into him, to be grabbed by his world and abdicate the central role of the self, Western or maybe human.