Abstract

The risks of the two main trends of contemporary thought, the analytic and the continental one, are the following. For the first one, the risk of escaping the radicalism required to the philosophical thought, which imposes going to last problems and to problematization of itself, for the second one the risk of lapsing into the lack of rigour and into chatting. In both ways there is the risk of dissolving philosophy. That is why philosophy is now called to a more challenging task, keeping at the same time rigour and depth. This is first of all achieved by recognizing that the two opposite tendencies are rooted in a relationship with the truth, marked at the same time by freedom and by a fracture. If the hermeneutic form seems the most appropriate to preserve the radical nature and extent of the philosophical thought, however, it remains marked by an interrupted and an indirect relationship with the truth.