Croce e il clima della storia. Una risposta a Dipesh Chakrabarty

The paper deals with a thesis by Dipesh Chakrabarty on the climate of history. In this thesis, Chakrabarty discusses Vico, Croce, and historicism, arguing that the historicist view is incompatible with the interpretation of history that emerges in the current debate on the Anthropocene. The paper, which is a response to Chakrabarty’s arguments, attempts to provide a more comprehensive and complex view of historicism and Croce’s philosophy. In particular, it shows that Croce’s concepts of history and nature can correspond to some cases of contemporary philosophical and historical debate.