Background
Castelli-Gattinara dl Zublena, Enrico was born on June 20, 1900 in Turin.
Philosopher of religion and existence
Castelli-Gattinara dl Zublena, Enrico was born on June 20, 1900 in Turin.
Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, University of Rome. Founder editor of the Archivo di filosofía, journal of the Societá filosofía italiana.
Castelli’s philosophy explores some of the problems in realism conceived as the affirmation of the reality of things and of subjects as mistakenly understood on the model of the existence of things. For him idealism is founded upon this reduction to objects set in opposition to the subject. Having freed oneself from a realism of things, the data of a common sense lead also to a critique of rationalism. In part that critique analyses contemporary crises not as crises occurring within modernism but as crises, or rather, catastrophes, of modernism. In his writing on art Castelli traces the prophetic story of contemporary crises in the pictorial theological works of fifteenthand sixteenth-century Flemish and German artists. In those artists he sees evidence of an irresistible concupiscence that drives us to the substitution of knowledge for faith and speculative dialectics for unity. After Vatican II he turned his attention particularly to the problem of demythicization.