ABSTRACT
Remo Cantoni's book, La coscienza inquieta, was first published in Milan in 1949 in the series Il Pensiero Critico and later reissued in 1976 by Il Saggiatore in Milan. the work La coscienza inquieta represents, in the period when it was issued, the highest example of the humanistic reading of Kierkegaard, a restless two-faced Janus anguished among the different possibilities of existence. Cantoni's reading of Kierkegaard has to be understood in the context of Cantoni's historical humanism, according to which philosophy does not have to solve the contradictions or dispel the aporias of experience, but it has only to establish their influence in the factuality that we try to manage. Other aspects that Cantoni emphasizes are Kierkegaard's position in contemporary literature as initiator of the existentialist novel, theater, and poetry, especially thanks to his theory of indirect communication. La coscienza inquieta was criticized by several reviewers of Cantoni's time and in a special way by Cornelio Fabro.
