Lasciar affiorare. Immediato e mediazione in Giorgio Colli e Gianni Carchia

The essay deals with the issue of immediacy/mediation through the interaction of two original theoretical proposals of the second half of the Italian 20th century, namely those by Giorgio Colli and Gianni Carchia. The first part of the essay exposes the problem of immediacy in Colli’s thought and its connection with wisdom (especially on the basis of "Filosofia dell’espressione", 1969), focusing both on the subsequent decay of logos and on the expressive forms of authentic logos, among which the enigma. The second paragraph presents the interpretation of archaic wisdom proposed by Carchia (starting from "Orfismo e tragedia", 1979), also extending the problem of immediacy/mediation to the field of art and painting (bearing in mind, for example, "Il mito in pittura", 1987 and "Arte e bellezza", 1995). Finally, through the analysis of Carchia’s preface to a Colli’s work, the close relationship between a “philosophy of expression” and the “unexpressed” is examined.