Francesco De Sanctis e la moderna critica comparatistica nell’era della complessità

Abstract

De Sanctis is always ready to double, as Jekyll and Hyde, with no fear of the traps deriving from contradictions. As a philosopher, politician, man of letters, Europeanist ante litteram, he is an eclectic and hybrid genius who is still able to fascinate us, with overwhelming passion, with the time machine of history and literature to tell us again an engaging story. The story of the moral, civil and religious consciousness of Italian people, where it is impossible to separate politics, philosophy and religion from literature. Similarly to what modern comparative criticism does.