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.

摘要

意大利是巨大的残缺。每一种史学趋势都坚持这一论点，在不完善和不足的情况下确定了现代意大利历史的特殊性：部分现代性，中断的里佐戈门托和未解决的特征。在起源与现代性，私人与公共，个人与集体之间的鸿沟中，可以认识到这种鸿沟。面临的挑战是如何应对这种不完善，以及如何处理潜力中尚未实现的能量。意大利思想一直或多或少有意识地致力于这种可能性。像意大利一样，它位于将力量与行动，可能与真实，前提和结果区分开的边缘。它位于身份与差异，内部与外部之间的十字路口。构成意大利思想的“外部”可以有不同的名称：历史，政治，生活。