Hegel e la contraddizione (II)

The essay completes the review of the interpretations of Hegelian contradiction provided in
Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Opening is critically discussed Emanuele Severino’s
‘paracoherentist’ thesis, who has argued that Hegel would have defended the PNC for sure, even if with no success. The long middle section is dedicated to Diego Marconi and Francesco Berto. The first – who has attempted to a formalization of Hegelian dialectic – maintains that in Hegel’s philosophy there are contradictions as well, but these are solved in the Absolute. Similarly Berto – who understands Hegelian dialectic as a holistic semantics – argues that the dialectical process represents a progressive ‘coherentization’, in which you move by the start from one major contradiction to a resolution of the same in the absolute Idea. Finally, the Author discusses Paolo Bettineschi’s interpretation, that is, just like the Severinian one, belonging to a ‘paracoherentist’ horizon.