Crisi Umanistica e modernità

he article discusses some aspects of the Italian debate about the writings of Jean Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger on the relationship between humanism and existentialism, in particular in reference to some texts by Eugenio Garin, Ernesto Grassi and Antonio Banfi. The paper proposes to investigate how the judgment of historiography in Italy on humanistic philosophy has developed on the basis of the need to formulate a new and different judgment on the Modernity, aware that the distance between “historic” humanism (Renais- sance and after the Renaissance) and “theoretical” humanisms could not coincide with the distinction between speculative and philological positions, but that it was on the contrary, in both cases, an elaboration of new conceptions of human and history.