"Interviewer: What is topology? Vincenzo Vitiello: It is a hermeneutic practice rather than a theory. And it is a practice linked to a very personal way of “reading”: it is impossible for me to read Aristotle with eyes other than those with which I read Hegel or Heidegger. There is a contemporaneity in philosophy—but not only in philosophy—that is at the basis of its “history.” As I like to say, by way of example: Hegel is more “contemporary” with Augustine than with Schelling, and the latter is more contemporary with Plotinus than with Hegel – ‘’ en philosophe', of course; because the two – Schelling and Hegel – exchanged friendly letters and fierce criticism between themselves and not with Plotinus and Augustine. The fact is that historical time is constructed in layers; it does not have a single dimension. What Kant considered u'‘ngereimt’', senseless, the contemporaneity of different times, is a fact of experience; ‘'ungereimt’' is only the reduction of every time to the linear succession “past-present-future” of physical-mechanical time. Moreover, it is from Kant that we learn the difference between “moral” time and “physical” time."