RICONOSCIMENTO DELLA REALTA' ED ESISTENZA PERSONALE. LA CRITICA DEL "NUOVO REALISMO" AL PENSIERO DEBOLE E IL SUO SIGNIFICATO NELLA PROSPETTIVA DI UN'ONTOLOGIA DELLA PERSONA

This article aims to analyse critically the so-called “new realism” and to evaluate its pedagogical and educational consequences. By examining the objections made by this philosophy to the postmodernist culture, the author agrees on some aspects of its theory of knowledge. On the other hand, the article highlights the lack of adequate anthropology and possible consequences of the “new realism” on educational thought and practice. The proposal of an ontology of the person wellestablished in the tradition of phenomenological realism is seen as dialectics of the “new realism”.