Sobre heroínas y ‘heroicidad’: De lo extraordinario a lo extra-ordinario
Abstract
Campbell's structuralist analysis of the common traits that, mainly in literature, the path of the hero must possess, has been criticized for being biased, and generated alternatives that are more inclusive. In this work we propose an even more radical revision not so much of the concept of "hero" but of the notion of "heroicity". We begin with an idea less based on literature and more on real life of what is understood as a folk/pre-theoretical conception of the heroic, analyzing it based on the Wittgenstenian notion of "family resemblance". The outcome is an inclusive concept that resists the heroic as something extraordinary and frames it in that which is added (extra) to the ordinary to be admirable.
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