Le scuole romane di filosofia. Appunti e spunti intorno a De Mauro, Calogero e Garroni

In recent years, several scholars have argued that we need to rethink the roots and history of Italian philosophy. There has been talk of an Italian Thought to refer to Italy’s distinctive contribution to philosophical research.Within the diverse and polycentric framework of the history of twentieth-century Italian philosophy, this contribution aims to explore the different souls of the Roman philosophical schools, with special reference to the complex figures of Calogero, Gregory, Garroni and De Mauro. In doing so, it highlights some common threads running through them: the historical-theoretical method, a focus on meaning and understanding, and the interweaving of nature and history in DeMauro’s conception of language. This last author, building on a Crocian historicist and idealist substratum, strikes a middle ground of sorts between the extremes of the linguistic turn, on the one hand, and the structuralist vulgate, on the other.