Presentazione - L'Ordine non programmato

This issue of the journal concerns the concept of "unplanned order", as a founding element of social institutions, the concept of "heterogenesis of ends", concept traceable already in the thought of Giambattista Vico, the concept of "Positive freedom" proposed by Luigi Scaravelli is taken up by Luciano Dondoli as a fundamental heuristic tool to understand the historical formation of social and cultural institutions