The topicality of Augusto Del Noce

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Abstract: This monographic issue of Cultura Económica is dedicated to the Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989), who in recent years has aroused growing interest in the international context as evidenced by the translation of some of his important works into English and Spanish. This interest in his writings has as much to do with his speculative vigor, which undoubtedly makes him one of the leading Italian and European Catholic philosophers of the 20th century, as with his many insights that today, more than thirty years after his death, have found substantial confirmation. Reconstructing the long philosophical and biographical itinerary of Del Noce in an editorial would be impossible, such is the richness of his writings in terms of content and arguments. In the contributions that appear in this monographic issue, the reader will have the opportunity to see how profound his speculative performance was both on the historical-philosophical and on the more strictly theoretical, especially in the field of political philosophy. Here we simply limit ourselves to giving a general frame of reference that can give an idea of the immensity of the intellectual commitment of this extraordinary scholar, whose speculative work was also accompanied by a considerable civil commitment.