Moderno e postmoderno. Un bilancio di Elio Franzini

Paolo D'Angelo, Alfonso M. Iacono and Alberto Martinengo discuss Elio Franzini's 'Moderno e postmoderno. Un bilancio'. D'Angelo focuses on the conception of modernity that emerges from the book and discusses the aporia of philosophical postmodernism. Iacono retraces the double origin of modernity, in Descartes and in Vico. Moreover, he underlines the criticism of postmodernism coming from Marxist philosophical political areas. Martinengo summarizes the main features of the debate on postmodernism, especially in Italy, and locates the original element of Franzini's outlook in the concept of 'immanent crisis'.