Abstract EN:

The object of the thesis consists in pointing out some possible traces of the influence that exercised the thought of Rousseau on italie, and especially in analysing the repercussion of the principles of religion he expresses in his works. The first volume of this work trys to give, in the first place, a general view of the italian cultural panorama including the values that harbour its history and of its similarity with the french culture, taking also into consideration the influence this country could have exerted on the young Rousseau. In the second place, we present the characteristic touches of the echo produced by his thought in italie, at the end of the xviiie century, and the way he was received by the intellectual and religious cercles. At last, at the end of the first volume, in the third part, we will tackle the question of the relation between Rousseau's thought and psychology, in the light of some italian critical authors. The second volume wants to analyse the religious thoughts of the genevan philosopher by studying some critical works on Rousseau realized by italian authors who, for the most part, belong to the second half of the xxe century. In the opinion of these authors, we have to consider the centre of the philosophers'thought looking at the religious consciouness of man, and they affirm that Rousseau, in many aspects in his thoughts, requires to transcend the phenomenological field in search of an unitarian and substantial base in human existence. In the fifth and last part, we'll treat the problem of crisis of values, which invested also the contemporary italian society, and we'll try to find a possible heritage of the man of nature proposed by Rousseau.