Aspetti della filosofia del linguaggio in Antonino Pagliaro

This paper illustrates the contribution made by the Sicilian glottologist Antonino Pagliaro to the philosophy of language. From the youthful Summary of Ario-European Linguistics (1930) to the works of the 1960s, the scholar developed an original idealistic doctrine of language. Accepting Benedetto Croce’s teaching, but also grasping its theoretical limits, Pagliaro conceives the mother tongue as a cognitive device, as a special ‘technique of knowledge’ in which the radical historicity of human experience comes to expression.