Paci lettore di Sartre. Il problema della soggettività

Abstract

This essay aims first and foremost to retrace the reasons and moments that led Enzo Paci to phenomenology, emphasising a particular aspect of his research: the question of subjectivity. The latter serves as a guideline for rediscovering the Italian philosopher’s intellectual journey. Paci does not understand subjectivity in a modern sense, but rather, starting from certain phenomenological instances, in particular intersubjectivity and intentionality, he rethinks it in terms of relationships. Subjectivity, thus, is not limited to being that negative opposition to worldly data typical of a certain existentialism, but is to be understood as something to be done, to be constructed, to be experienced: it is a meaningful practice, an irreversible process that gives meaning to the world. It is on this ground that Paci encounters the dialectical thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, which allows him to clarify certain positions regarding his vision of subjectivity as historical, situated, dialectical and, consequently, social.