v. 1. Dall'antico al moderno -- v. 2. L'età contemporanea -- v. 3. Teoria e metodo.

Fulvio Tessitore publishes 17 letters which G. Nencioni wrote to him from 1980 to 2003. They prove the friendship and the community of interests between Piovani, Nencioni and Tessitore, as well as their shared love for the city of Naples, critical and at the same time fully aware of its great cosmopolitical tradition.

This essay offers an overview of Historicism by looking at its prominent figures in XX century. Starting from the first use of the term storicismo, the author highlights the substantial difference between Giovanni Gentile’s and Benedetto Croce’s historicistic perspectives, especially emphasized in the Thirties and the Forties . The author’s historical reconstruction then illustrates the “crisis” which Historicism had to face up to after the II World War, alighting the more significant cases of the anew sought “paradigm of historicity”, and (...) the interpretations of “Historicism” between the Sixties and the Seventies against which Pietro Piovani talked explicitly of a “New Historicism”. Starting from Piovani’s positions, Fulvio Tessitore and his school propose a radical form of critical and problematic neo-historicism which, recalling the outcomes of Weber’s Historismus in a strictly anti-metaphisical direction, is centered on the ideas of individuality, difference, ethical and gnoseological pluralism, understanding of the other, life. (shrink)

El autor propone nuevamente a discusión el “problema Vico”, integrando en su examen el recorrido del “senso commune”, que ubica en la base de la reflexión viquiana como un gran descubrimiento gnoseológico, cuya génesis se encuentra en el De nostri y profundizada en el De antiquissima. La necesidad de superar el abismo entre hombre y Dios, a través del principio verumfactum, centra en la ecuación de scire-facere el tema del “orden” y de una concepción no teleológica de la historia que (...) nos lleva al Diritto Universale, a la Scienza nuova, y a la vindicación del sentido del “certo”. Se explica así el paso en la obra magna del plano inductivo al historicista, y de la metafísica a la “metafísica del género humano”. El historicismo viquiano nace del original descubrimiento de los “límites de la razón”, que no son otros que los límites de la historia; un historicismo reforzado tras el descubirmiento del concepto de “eventualidad”, y que es ubicable en los orígenes del historicismo crítico y problemático .PALABRAS CLAVE: Vico, sentido común, teología de la historia, historicismo, F. Tessitore, A. Pagliaro, G. Capograssi, P. Piovani.The author reassesses “Vico’s problem”, by considering the path of “senso commune” that he places at the basis of Vichian reflection, as a huge gnoseological discovery, whose genesis is in De Nostri, and whose development can be found in De antiquissima. The need to overcome the abyss between man and God, through the verum-factum principle, centers on the scire-facere equation the issue of “order”, and of a non teleological —and therefore assumable by the viquian “theology of history”— conception of history, that leads us to the Diritto Universale and the Scienza Nuova, as well as to the vindication of the meaning of the “certo”. The transit accomplished in this major work from the inductive to the historicist level, and from metaphysics to the “metaphysics of the human race” is thus explained. Vichian historicism stems from the original discovery of the “limits of reason”, which are just the limits of history; a kind of historicism strengthen by the discovery of the concept of “eventuality”, and which is to be found in the origins of critical and problematic historicismo .KEYWORDS: Vico, common sense, theleology of history, historicism, F. Tessitore, A. Pagliaro, G. Capograssi, P. Piovani. (shrink)