To make 'being' crazy

Some notes on Rosmini's criticism of Hegel

Abstract

The article aims to outline some of the fundamental junctures of the close polemical confrontation Antonio Rosmini engaged in with Hegel’s philosophy; more specifically, the paper will deal with the peculiar categories used by Rosmini to polemically describe idealism, such as ‘madness’, ‘dream’, ‘imagination’, ‘fantasy’, ‘enchantment’, ‘delirium’ and ‘absurdity’. Thus new light will be shade on a relevant, but often neglected, chapter in the history of Italian, but also European, anti-Hegelism.