La filosofia del dialogo di Guido Calogero

The essay deals with the theme of the «philosophy of dialogue» of Guido Calogero, conceived in the context of his intellectual development, from the beginnings in the mid-Twenties as a historian of the ancient philosophy at Giovanni Gentile’s school, to the growing up in him of an autonomous philosophical personality and, since the mid-Thirties, of a more and more tangible political engagement, built in a steady discussion with Benedetto Croce. Calogero’s «philosophy of dialogue» reveals itself as being more a moral philosophy than a political one, even as the outcome of the failure both of the liberal-socialist proposal and of the subsequent Action’s Party, in which Calogero much had invested, assuming in it important executive roles.