“Nonsynthetic synthesis”. Appearance, Caducity and Memory in Gianni Carchia

t. Carchia posits the expression “nonsynthetic synthesis” at the foundation of his attempt to return Being to the logic of the event, while the relationship between the logic of the event and appearance—as the place of ineffectuality, of purposeless finality, of pure form and suspension of knowledge—is for him fundamental for the revelation of truth. Aesthetic temporality, as the temporality of the soul absorbed in the contemplation of the nexus of truth and beauty, is temporality tout court, since the space of memory, the salvation of appearance, and the dimension of memory are one and the same. The interpretation of the philosophy of Kant, Benjamin, and Bergson is deeply rooted in Carchia’s thought, where— as in his last work, the essay collection L’amore del pensiero (Macerata, 2000)—the vision of the almost “musical” presence of transcendence in the heart of immanence is central. The time of memory, where appearance is saved in temporalization, is “messianic time – time of music, of the linguistic idea or of the involuntary image” (G. Carchia, Name and Image. An Essay on Walter Benjamin, Seagull Books, 2025).