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, […]
Il pensiero tragico di Luigi Pareyson
01/06/2024 Claudio Ciancio XIX (2024), 1 Saggio Pareyson’s tragic thought has its roots in his previous existentialist and hermeneutic orientations. It is based on a conception of God as absolute freedom, which defines its existence by excluding non-existence, but in doing so, configures its possibility. In contrast to the prevailing tendency to reduce the scope […]
L’assurdo, il male e il tragico in Rensi
01/06/2024 Sergio Givone XIX (2024), 1 Saggio The article addresses the problem of tragic thought, the theoretical and existential implications of which are analysed. Giuseppe Rensi’s critical confrontation with neo-idealist theses is the focus of the proposed study: overturning the Idealistic perspective, Rensi affirms the unreality of the rational and the reality of the irrational. […]
Eros e libertà: Gianni Carchia interprete di Schelling
01/06/2024 Luisa Bonanni XIX (2024), 1 Saggio The paper reconstructs Gianni Carchia’s reading of the elaborate notion of love in Schelling’s philosophy of freedom. Love, according to Schelling, is a relationship between two terms, which have the power to exist independently of the relationship itself and therefore freely choose to bind themselves to each other. […]