Scepsi e mito in Remo Cantoni
Matteo Gargani XIX (2024), 2 Saggio Skepticism and Myth in Remo Cantoni. The author examines three essays by Remo Cantoni (1914-1978), written in the 1940s, which focus on the relationship between skepticism and myth. The author argues that, for Cantoni, skepticism and myth represent two fundamental polarities of thought.The hypothesis that reason might ultimately overcome […]
Garin e Paci: filosofia, storia, antifilosofia
Pasquale Terracciano XIX (2024), 2 Saggio The essay aims to face Eugenio Garin’s 1959 Filosofia come sapere storico, through the controversies and correspondence of those years. On the one hand, the paper intends to show, also through some unpublished documents, how much Garin’s position owed to the interlocution with contemporary reflections taking place in the […]
Un sodalizio inquieto. Mario Dal Pra e Giulio Preti lettori di Marx
Davide Bondì XIX (2024), 2 Saggio The text reconstructs the studies carried out by Mario Dal Pra on the philosophy of Karl Marx between the middle of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s. It insists on the relationship existing between the interpretation of historical materialism and the theoretical debates on historiography. During these […]
Was ist Aufklärung?. Franco Venturi e il suo lungo corpo a corpo con la storiografia filosofica
Laura Anna Macor XIX (2024), 2 Saggio Was ist Aufklärung? is not only the well-known question, that Kant provided a response to in 1784; it is also the formula, which according to the Italian historian Franco Venturi (1914-1994) has influenced scholarship and thinking on the Enlightenment as a European phenomenon ever since – in anything […]
La filosofia dell’essere di Felice Balbo
Marcello Mustè XIX (2024), 2 Saggio Felice Balbo’s philosophy developed over a brief period, from 1945 to 1964. In this period, a discontinuity can be noted in 1949, when, in dialogue with Augusto Del Noce and Norberto Bobbio, Balbo began to develop a philosophy of being. This philosophy was already present in his earlier works […]
La filosofia del dialogo di Guido Calogero
Stefano Zappoli XIX (2024), 2 Saggio 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 […]
Andrea Caffi e l’urgenza di una retroguardia culturale
Daniele Bassi XIX (2024), 2 Saggio The starting point of this essay is an exploration of Andrea Caffi’s intellectual formation, highlighting the influence of Russian Populism. To this influence are traced back his initial aversion to political vanguardism, as well as his strong belief in radical-federalism that drove him into a wide polemic, both strategic […]
Antonio Banfi storico della filosofia
Riccardo Pozzo XIX (2024), 2 Saggio The paper examines, in chronological order, the reflections on the history of philosophy put forward by Antonio Banfi in the following works: Principi di una teoria della ragione (1926); Concetto e sviluppo della storiografia filosofica (1933); L’homme Copernicain (1948); Problemi di storia della storiografia filosofica (1951); La filosofia cinese […]
Alle origini dello scetticismo di Adolfo Levi. Kantismo, contingenza e scepsi nel carteggio con Giuseppe Prezzolini
Luca Natali XIX (2024), 2 Saggio One of the best-known aspects of Adolfo Levi’s theoretical reflection is certainly his suffered skepticism, of which he provided an enlightening example in Sceptica (1921). The article aims to go to the roots of this philosophical attitude, finding its first traces within the writings and correspondence dating back to […]
Masini e l’avventura. Sull’inizio della tragedia
01/07/2024 Ubaldo Fadini XIX (2024), 1 Saggio The article deals with Ferruccio Masini’s interpretation of tragedy in Nietzsche’s thought. The tragic dimension of existence discloses a space for adventure, risk, and danger: Masini’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s thought as experimental philosophy is based on this. The adventure theme indicates precisely what cannot be anticipated and planned, […]
