Abstract
Autore:
Di Mauro Antonio
Titolo:
"A proposito di una ristampa del "Perchè non possiamo non dirci ´cristiani´ " di Croce"
Following the recent reprinting of Perchè non possiamo non dirci «cristiani», the author discusses certain themes present in Croce´s wellknow text, and underlines a number of storiographic questions that have arisen from decades of interpretation. In the first place, the author rejects the assumption, so often affirmed and repeated, that the next merely reflected the political purposes of a liberal Croce preoccupied with seeing off the communist threat. Perché non possiamo non dirci "cristiani" should instead be seen as profoundly linked to the speculative and storiographic problems on which Croce was working when troubled by the anguish of finis Europae thinking, and led to undertake a critical revision of those problematic aspects of his thought characterized by the slow emergence of a providential and metaphysical point of view. Hence, in the author´s view, the need for a plain and frank assessment of the problematic and troubled spirit of the last phase of Croce´s thought, of which Perché non possiamo non dirci "cristiani" is a clear manifestation. This text cannot be categorized by use of the simplistic or even misleading schemes which, both in the past and sometimes in the present, certain forms of storiography have refused to abandon in their characterizations of Croce´s intellectual personality.
