Soggetto e comunità nell’idealismo costruttivo di Josiah Royce.

This article explores the relationship between subject and community in Josiah Royce’s constructive idealism, situating it between Hegelian idealism and Nietzschean perspectivism. It argues that Royce redefines the Absolute not as a closed metaphysical totality, but as the regulative horizon of an infinite process of interpretation. Against both subjectivism and teleological historicism, the self is conceived as constituted through participation in a community of interpretation. Drawing on Peirce’s triadic semiosis, the paper shows that meaning arises through an open-ended process of communal correction and integration. Royce’s engagement with Hegel preserves the sociality of reason while rejecting a necessitarian metaphysics, and his dialogue with Nietzsche transforms the will to power into a will to interpret. The notion of loyalty provides the ethical articulation of this framework. Royce’s socialism is interpreted as a non-programmatic critique of possessive individualism. Ultimately, the community of interpretation emerges as structurally transindividual and transcultural, grounded in the internal logic of infinite semiosis rather than in cosmopolitan idealism.