Religione e tragedia. L’orizzonte catartico del Nulla nella filosofia di Alberto Caracciolo

This essay aims to examine the problem and the status of the tragic in Alberto Caracciolo’s philosophical reflection. In particular, it will emphasise how this theme is traced, in philosophical interpretation, to the problem of evil, of cosmic sin, in the particular figure that it takes on, as a specific evil, in the phenomenally useless suffering, whose tragic figure par excellence is in the figure of the idiot, with all the ethical and moral connotations that this entails. But another figure – the Nothingness and its imperative of the Eternal – transcendentally dominates over the albeit concrete reality of tragedy, and it is in such a horizon that, for Caracciolo, catharsis and redemption from the tragic phenomenally experienced in our reality can be given.