readings by Enzo Salomone and Renato Carpentieri
acoustic double bass Ilaria Capalbo
Thanks to the philosopher, Teacher Vincenzo Vitiello for the precious advices and to Nicola Capone for the collaboration in the choice of Spaventa’s texts
Palazzo Serra di Cassano
June 16 and 30 Enzo Salomone
July 7 Renato Carpentieri
H 18.00
timing 45 min
With extraordinary ability to interpret, Enzo Salomone and Renato Carpentieri lead us in reading these foundations of modern philosophical and political thought, the three Prolusions (Modena, Bologna and Naples) by Bertrando Spaventa, stages of a single philosophical trip and the highest point of the self-awareness of Western culture; they express the awareness that history is always the history of freedom, that “thought is the soul of the universe, it is the most intimate part of the life of nations”. Bertrando Spaventa with the Prolusioni puts us in a position to understand what we were, what we are and what we should be in the movement of modern philosophy, or a free and equal nation in the community of nations. And such a height of self-consciousness strongly imposes the need to elaborate a new liberating legal form in place of the old, the need to build a new state, as Benedetto Croce, that of Bertrando Spaventa was the nephew, later reiterated, in the History of ‘Europe in the nineteenth century: the birth of a new conscience affirms a new nationality. And just as during the Risorgimento, a Neapolitan or a Piemontese «made themselves Italian by not denying their prior appearance but by raising and resolving it in that new being», so the peoples of individual nationalities «will rise up to Europeans and their thoughts will lead to Europe and their hearts will beat for her as before for the smaller countries, do not forget already, but better love».
