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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XX , n° 2, Dicembre 2002 ( Contributi ) pag. 31-39
A PARADOXICAL TRUTH.
CROCE'S THESIS ON CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
JÁNOS KELEMAN
University ELTE,
Budapest
Already in the first pages of Teoria e storia della storiografia we read a concise formula of Croce's thesis on contemporary history: "Every true history is contemporary history"1. It is not difficult to recognize that this statement constitutes the nucleus of Croce's reflections on history. In fact, Lukács, except for a short review of Teoria e storia della storiografia (published in Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik in 1915), devoted very few pages to Croce, but of his theories, he mentions just this thesis in The Destruction of Reason, and even accords it some truth (which, on the part of the Lukács of The Destruction of Reason is quite a lot). According to Lukács, the thesis implies "a real dialectical problem": "We should notice here not only the close affinity with the German current of Windelband and Rickert, with the incipient irrationalization of history, but also the way in which Croce dissolves a real dialectical problem, constituted by the
fact that the knowledge of the present (from the highest level reached in a development process) offers the key to knowing the least evolved levels of the past, in an irrationalist subjectivism"2.
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