Transcendental Thought. The Self and the World after Kant

This paper, in dialogue with Bontadini and Severino, aims to illustrate the significance of transcendental thought in the context of Gentile's actualism, with and beyond Kant. Tracing the act of thinking back to the non-Taletian plane, which precedes the construction of metaphysical knowledge about the world, Giovanni Gentile's philosophical perspective represents a return to the speculative approach of early thinkers, Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides. At issue is once more the existence of things and the meaning of becoming.