Il cosiddetto irrazionale nell’arte

Renata Viti Cavaliere XVII (2022), 1 Saggio The so-called irrational in art, in analogy to the contingency of history, consists in the inexplicable creative spontaneity of the spirit. Croce opposed irrationalistic romanticism starting from 1902 with modern aesthetics, heir to Vico’s ‘logic of fantasy’, with the task of theoretically justifying the irrational in art. Poetry, […]

Arte e storia in Benedetto Croce

Massimo Verdicchio XVII (2022), 1 Saggio The issue of Croce’s history depends on the relation to his aesthetics which is in appearance symbolic, as it is in Hegel, but is in essence allegorical. As Croce states in the 1893 essay and in the Estetica, history is an hybrid form of art that partakes of the […]

Il problema estetico. La prima forma della gnoseologia crociana (1900-1904)

Rosalia Peluso XVII (2022), 1 Saggio The article analyzes the genesis and the content of the ‘aesthetic problem’ in the philosophy of Benedetto Croce. In particular, attention is immediately drawn to the philosophical physiognomy of this problem: it is rooted in the principle according to which‘art is knowledge’and of which it is necessary to clarify […]

La fortuna dell’Estetica del 1902 in Italia

Paolo D’Angelo XVII (2022), 1 Saggio The paper focusses on the influence exerted by Croce’s Estetica of 1902 on the Italian culture. The first paragraph is devoted to the reviews and translations that appeared immediately after the publication of the book. However rich in number, both reviews and translations were not essential for the fortune […]

L’Italia ebraica del Rinascimento. Intervista a Giuseppe Veltri

Libera Pisano XV (2020), 1 Intervista On the occasion of the publication of his most recent book Il Rinascimento nel pensiero ebraico (Paideia 2020), Giuseppe Veltri elucidates some crucial issues concerning the scientific and philosophical revolutions of the Italian Reinassance from a Jewish perspective. In order to do it, he will discuss the pivotal role […]

Il pensiero di Isacco Samuele Reggio tra Haskalah e Wissenschaft des Judentums

Alessandro Grazi XV (2020), 1 Saggio Recent investigations have started to challenge the Germano-centric approach to the study of the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism), one of the two main Jewish intellectual movements in the 19th century, together with the Haskalah (Jewish Illuminism). Part of this new approach aims at exploring commonalities between the […]