La modernità cartesiana: un paradigma di interpretazione

Descartes is usually considered as the father of Western rationalism and the thinker who made the cogito and the subjective element the cornerstone of philosophical investigation. This article aims to analyze the history of this hermeneutic paradigm by verifying the main turning points which transformed this reading into the traditional approach to Cartesian thinking and modern philosophy. Starting from M. Heidegger’s analysis, the article proceeds backwards and identifies the main phases of this interpretation giving a sharper focus on F. Nietzsche, F. W. J. Schelling, G. W. F. Hegel and, lastly, I. Kant. At the end of the analysis, the article highlights the significant continuity of the different interpretations: even those philosophers, such as Heidegger and Nietzsche, who radically questioned the Cartesian modernity paradigm, assumed the same interpretation which supported that paradigm among their premises and allowed this interpretation to prosper and dominate the hermeneutic scene still nowadays.