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By Rocco Rubini

ISBN-10: 022618613X

ISBN-13: 9780226186139

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A usual inheritor of the Renaissance and as soon as tightly conjoined to its learn, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance reviews round the time of worldwide warfare II. In The different Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have tried to do considering: deliver them again jointly. Telling the tale of contemporary Italian philosophy during the lens of Renaissance scholarship, he recovers a strand of philosophic heritage that sought to reactivate the humanist beliefs of the Renaissance, while philosophy in different places improved towards decidedly antihumanist sentiments.
           
Bookended through Giambattista Vico and Antonio Gramsci, this strand of Renaissance-influenced philosophy rose in response to the key revolutions of the time in Italy, resembling nationwide solidarity, fascism, and democracy. Exploring the methods its thinkers seriously assimilated the idea in their northern opposite numbers, Rubini uncovers new chances in our highbrow historical past: that antihumanism might have been forestalled, and that our postmodern situation might have been completely varied. In doing so, he bargains a huge new state of mind concerning the origins of modernity, one who renews a belief in human dignity and the Western legacy as a whole.

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29 28. The Italian philosophical community fi rst began to reckon with the legacy of its postwar activity in two conferences during the early 1980s. For the proceedings, see La cultura fi losofica italiana dal 1945 al 1980 nelle sue relazioni con altri campi del sapere (Naples: Guida, 1982); and La fi losofi a italiana dal dopoguerra a oggi (Rome: Laterza, 1985). 29. For this eloquent characterization, see Enrico Castelli, “L’avventura fi losofica italiana: l’ ‘Archivio di Filosofia,’” Quaderni della “Biblioteca Filosofica di Torino” 36 (1970): 3–4.

It is thus to this psychological projection—to the relation that the modern Italian intellectual entertained with himself as a Renaissance man, to his internalization of the ‘Renaissance’ as an existential category—that one needs to attend in order to grasp the etiological myth I call the ‘Italians’ Renaissance,’ the very myth that, in turn, informed the ambition for an Italian national philosophy. 1 On close inspection the notions of ‘rebirth’ and ‘resurgence,’ though related, are not identical.

In the presence of international authorities at an official event in Marburg, they proceeded to describe—naïvely, to be sure—the importance of abating physical distance in pursuit of an international meeting of minds. Evidently, each country, victorious or defeated, was facing its own set of problems, and Italy, which formally partook of both outcomes, was in an even more perplexed position. The fi rst victim of Castelli’s premature ideals of reconciliation was Castelli himself. Before failing to secure the attendance of either Sartre or Heidegger, he had failed to persuade Italy’s own great surviving thinker, Benedetto Croce, to attend.

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