Abstract

We describe the frame of the post-war Italian philosophy, both to grasp the specific structure of the philosophical culture that developed in Italy in the last century, and, specifically, to understand the peculiarity of Luigi Scaravelli’s thought. In this perspective, the problem of historical judgement emerges, which makes it possible to place a fruitful correlation between Vico and Scaravelli. From the problem of History, then, we pass to examine the indispensable categories for the intelligibility of contingency and of the new in experience.