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Pensiero e tempo

Ricerche sullo storicismo critico: figure, modelli, attualità

Cambi, Franco

Franco Cambi is Full Professor of the Philosophy of Education at the University of Florence. His research extends over the fields of theory-pedagogy, history-education and education-literature. Among his more strictly philosophical works we would mention: Tra scienza e storia: percorsi del neostoricismo italiano (Milano 1992); Vito Fazio-Allmayer: dall'attualismo allo storicismo critico (Palermo 1996); and his contribution to the volume Ortega y Gasset e la Bildung: studi critici (Milano 2007).

Serie: Studi e saggi

This book encompasses a profound meditation on the twentieth-century fortunes of historicism as a philosophical model. After a reconstruction of its decline (as a unified and compact philosophical "ism" and as the direct heir of idealism, especially in Italy) and of its persistence as a philosophical style, the volume then penetrates the frontier of the neo-historicisms, probing two of their European faces in the shape of José Ortega y Gasset and Theodor W. Adorno. It then goes on to develop various Italian paths: from Fazio-Allmayer to Garin (and his school) from Dal Pra to Massolo, and up to Preti (was he really an "anti-historicist"?). In all these paths the centrality of historicism and its post-metaphysical aspect are clearly focused, as also in the case of the School of Naples, which now represents the most outstanding and significant heir to such critical (and open) neo-historicism.