Pietro Piovani e lo storicismo tedesco

The paper examines Pietro Piovani’s approach to German historicism from a historical-philosophical perspective, framing it within the Neapolitan master’s aim of elaborating the foundations of a new historicism. Particularly since the 1960s, Piovani has been searching for a critical, problematic historicism, open to the various influences of contemporary thought, in which Historismus played a leading role. By centralising the notion of the individuality – in polemic with idealism and Hegelism – German historicism is made to react in Piovani’s reflection with depth psychology, existentialism and phenomenology. Historismus is therefore not only an object but also a fundamental component of Piovani’s philosophy.