Concordia discors. Del Noce e Matteucci a confronto

Augusto Del Noce and Nicola Matteucci have confronted each other for about thirty years, at times directly (in the years in which Del Noce collaborated with "Il Mulino"), at others indirectly, on a series of themes of great political and cultural importance. Among these, the limits of the antifascist paradigm as foundation of the Republican democracy, the interpretation of the Risorgimento and the analysis of '68 events. This confrontation, that also reaches to the evaluation of the Unites States as a model of liberal society, assumes a particular interest for both the intellectual relevance and the different cultural background of the two protagonists (Del Noce, of catholic formation, Matteucci, of liberal-laical culture), besides the importance of the discussed themes. Anyhow, only some of the moments of their confrontation have been by now reconstructed in depth. Purpose of this essay is to fill this gap offering an overall reconstruction, even though necessarily synthetic, of this important chapter of the Italian intellectual history of '900.