Abstract
ABSTRACT Italy is the Great Incomplete. Every historiographical trend has insisted on this topos, identifying in incompletion and insufficiency the peculiarities of modern Italian history: partial modernity, interrupted Risorgimento, and unresolved identity. This divide can be recognised in the gap between origin and modernity, private and public, individual and collective. The challenge is to work on this incompletion, on the energy contained in potentiality that has never been realised. Italian Thought has always worked, more or less consciously, on this possibility. Like Italy, it lies on the margin that separates might and action, possible and real, premise and result. It resides at the crossroads between identity and difference, interior and exterior. The ‘exterior’ that constitutes Italian Thought can be given different names: history, politics, life. Instead of being wrapped up in itself and focused on its internal development like other traditions, Italian Thought has always reached out to the surrounding world, projecting itself towards contemporary life.
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
