"Il mio corpo limitato e lo spirito infinito". Sentimento, corporeità e spazio tra Rosmini e Gentile.

In Rosmini’s thought, the doctrine of ‘fundamental feeling’ goes through a development pro- cess from the Nuovo Saggio to the Antropologia, until it takes definitive form in the Psico- logia. The relation of the sentient body to space becomes indicative of an infinite – or tran- scendental – openness of feeling, prefiguring an unprecedented conception of the human soul, and its substantiality, as the ‘conscious center of experience’. With Spaventa, but especially with Gentile, Italian idealism takes advantage of this conception, while placing it in a speculative context in which ‘substance’, or the permanence of experience, acquires an- other meaning