DOI:  10.53136/979122181867314 
                                                        
                                                            Pages: 199-211
                                                        
                              
                                                                                                
                                
                                                            
                             Publication date: Dicember 2024
                            
                                                        Publisher: Aracne
                                                        
                                                                    
                                    
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                    The paper examines Pietro Piovani’s approach to German historicism from a historical-philosophical perspective, framing it within the Neapolitan master’s aim of elaborating the foundations of a new historicism. Particularly since the 1960s, Piovani has been searching for a critical, problematic historicism, open to the various influences of contemporary thought, in which Historismus played a leading role. By centralising the notion of the individuality – in polemic with idealism and Hegelism – German historicism is made to react in Piovani’s reflection with depth psychology, existentialism and phenomenology. Historismus is therefore not only an object but also a fundamental component of Piovani’s philosophy.