The Gnoseology of Gustavo Bontadini: Ideal-Realism and the Critique of Decisive Immanence

From his earliest youth, Bontadini identified Gentile's 'idealismo attuale' as the highest form of immanentism and claimed Gentile's 'Logo concreto' to represent the most rigorous thematization of the notion of experience. Moving from Gentile's legacy (and not against it), Bontadini thus engaged in the constructive mediation of the experience, i.e., he aimed to restore metaphysics by mediating experience as Gentile characterized it. This is a unique and extremely original operation in European philosophy and still deserves a careful examination. Bontadini also suggests to avoid any reduction of metaphysics to gnoseology, a tendency still characterising contemporary philosophy.