The objectivity of interpretation in G. Gentile regarding his reading of Vico

Abstract

One of the main criticisms of Vico’s idealistic interpretations was the lack of historical objectivity. Those critics think that, having reconstructed Vico's philosophy from and according to their own philosophy, these interpretations would have the great defect of being incapable of investigating how Vico really was and thought. This paper suggests a reconstruction, in response to these criticisms, of the idealist conception about the objectivity of interpretation, in order to propose a renewed approach to these interpretations. Although the work takes Gentile as its central author, it also considers aspects of Croce’s philosophy.