It is perhaps appropriate to rethink and recover a new sense of Progress, which is consistent with our past and present history. That's why one of the leading Italian intellectuals and historician of political doctrines track here the parable of this idea and analyzes the causes of the failure that it had suffered.
Salvadori at the same time try to give an answer to the question whether we can do without a renewed idea of ​​progress with as an end a development that is compatible and able to inspire a more rational conduct, more effective and more supportive of human action, in order to "give a future to the future. "