Da Atene a Roma. Heidegger, l'Italia e la tradizione greco-latina

Abstract

The essay deals with the way in which Heideggerian studies in Italy have addressed the philosopher’s relation- ship with the Latin tradition (therefore Romano-Italic), in particular with regard to the transit of some fundamental concepts from Greekness into the new universe of thought. Analyzing the history of Italian studies on the subject, it emerges that, despite a careful and in-depth interest in the most important passages of this history, the production of contributions that address the problem represented by the presence of Latin concepts in Heidegger has undergone, in recent years, a certain stagnation. It is therefore legitimate to ask what remains to be said with respect to Heidegger’s reception of Romanitas understood as a decisive passage in the history of the spirit also and above all in reference to the Greek conceptuality that passes through it. And whether there are, within this history, aspects that can be further explored or revised.