GIUSEPPE GEMBILLO'S COMPLEX NEOHISTORICISM

Giuseppe Gembillo’s concept of Complex Neohistoricism connects the historicism of Vico and Croce with the systemic-complex vision outlined by contemporary scientists such as Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Ilya Prigogine, and Humberto Maturana. In Gembillo’s view, this convergence is the consequence of a shift that occurred both in philosophy and in science. Historicist philosophy, which had already overcome the linearity that still characterized the Hegelian dialectic thanks to Benedetto Croce’s theorizations on the circular activity of the Spirit, has encountered a scientific knowledge that, in the twentieth century, finally acknowledged the irreversibility of time. To relate to Reality – a set of interconnected and historical processes – it is necessary to overcome mathematical rationalism. Instead, Gembillo proposes a Reason that is itself historical-complex and takes the form of a plurality of partial and complementary logics – Polylogics of Complexity. Thus, a neohistoricist ontology emerges, defining Reality – including the Spirit – as an organic, dissipative and historical complex Plurivers