Rivista di Filosofia

Rivista di Filosofia
Title	Rivista di Filosofia
Discipline	Philosophy
Language	Italian
Country	Italy
History	1947–present
Frequency	Quarterly

Rivista di Filosofia is an Italian scholarly journal focused on philosophical research, criticism, and historical scholarship, publishing articles, reviews, and critical notes in Italian and occasionally in French, German, and English. Founded in the postwar period, the journal has engaged with continental and analytic traditions through contributions addressing metaphysics, ethics, political thought, epistemology, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy.

History

The journal was established in the aftermath of World War II during a period marked by intellectual reconstruction involving figures associated with the Italian Republic, the Italian Socialist Party, and the Christian Democracy movement, and it emerged alongside contemporaneous periodicals such as Il Ponte, La Nuova Europa, and Politica. Early editorial interactions connected the journal to scholars who had engaged with debates surrounding the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), the Treaty of Rome (1957), and cultural exchanges with institutions like the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze and the Accademia dei Lincei. Throughout the Cold War era the journal published work commenting on thinkers linked to Niccolò Machiavelli, Giambattista Vico, Benedetto Croce, Antonio Gramsci, and international figures including Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger. In the later twentieth century it engaged with the legacies of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, John Rawls, and corresponded with departments at the Università di Bologna, Sapienza – Università di Roma, Università degli Studi di Milano, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and the Università di Padova.

Editorial Profile and Scope

The editorial board has historically included university faculty and scholars affiliated with institutions such as the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Università degli Studi di Torino, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Università di Siena, Università di Napoli Federico II, and research centers like the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici and the Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche. The journal’s remit covers commentary on canonical texts by Plato, Aristotle, Avicenna, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and modern philosophers including Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Sigmund Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, and Jürgen Habermas. It situates historical scholarship alongside analytic contributions that interact with work by Willard Van Orman Quine, Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, Wilfrid Sellars, Elizabeth Anscombe, G.E.M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Peter Singer.

Notable Contributors and Articles

Contributors have included Italian and international philosophers affiliated with or in dialogue with figures from the École Normale Supérieure, Collège de France, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, and New York University. The journal has published work engaging with texts by Giovanni Gentile, Aldo Moro, Carlo Cattaneo, Piero Martinetti, Emanuele Severino, Giorgio Del Vecchio, Roberto Esposito, Umberto Eco, Norberto Bobbio, Franco Ferrarotti, Luciano Floridi, Paolo Virno, and Alberto Toscano. Articles have addressed themes in dialogue with scholarship by Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Michael Oakeshott, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty, Cornel West, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Max Horkheimer.

Publication and Distribution

The journal has been issued through academic publishers and university presses operating in cities such as Milan, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Turin, and Padua, with distribution channels reaching libraries including the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, the British Library, the Library of Congress, and university repositories at Università di Cambridge, Università di Oxford, Yale University Library, Harvard Library, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Subscriptions have been available to learned societies like the American Philosophical Association, the British Philosophical Association, the European Philosophical Society, and the International Federation of Philosophical Societies, and copies are exchanged with journals such as Mind, The Philosophical Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, Revue de métaphysique et de morale, Philosophical Studies, and Analytica.

Reception and Impact

Scholarly reception has linked the journal to debates in the historiography of ideas concerning figures such as Giambattista Vico, Niccolò Machiavelli, Benedetto Croce, and Antonio Gramsci, and to contemporary discussions prompted by Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Alberto Toscano, and Roberto Esposito. Reviews and citations have appeared in bibliographies compiled by institutions like the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and university departments at Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, The New School, and King's College London. The journal has influenced curricula at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, the Università di Bologna, and the Università degli Studi di Milano, and figures who contributed have gone on to positions at Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, New York University, University of Toronto, and Australian National University.

Indexing and Abstracting

Rivista di Filosofia is indexed in major bibliographic services and abstracting databases including those maintained by the Institute for Scientific Information, the Scopus database operated by Elsevier, the Web of Science platform, the Philosopher's Index, JSTOR, and catalogues curated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the European Research Council, with holdings listed in national bibliographies such as the Indice delle riviste italiane di scienze umane e sociali and library networks like the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale.

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