Historicism and Fascism in Modern ItalyUniversity of Toronto Press, 27 ott 2007 - 352 pagine During the early decades of the twentieth century, Italy produced distinctive innovations in both the intellectual and political realms. On the one hand, Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) and Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) spearheaded a radical rethinking of historicism and philosophical idealism that significantly reoriented Italian culture. On the other hand, the period witnessed the first rumblings of fascism. Assuming opposite sides, Gentile became the semi-official philosopher of fascism while Croce argued for a renewed liberalism based on 'absolute' historicism. In Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy, David D. Roberts uses the ideological conflict between Croce and Gentile as a basis for a wider discussion of the interplay between politics and ideas in Italy during the early-twentieth century. Roberts examines the connection between fascism and the modern Italian intellectual tradition, arguing that the relationship not only deepens our understanding of fascism and liberalism but also illuminates ongoing dangers and possibilities in the wider Western world. This set of twelve essays by one of the leading scholars in the field represents an authoritative view of the modern Italian intellectual tradition, its relationship with fascism, and its enduring implications for history, politics, and culture in Italy and beyond. |
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... individual , violence as a mode of social action , and success as the supreme value in public affairs . Croce , according to Destler , had thereby ' helped lay the intellectual foundations of Italian fascism.'4 Influential exiled ...
... individual interests, liberalism did not adequately embrace the human ethical capacity, the potential human sense of responsibility for the world. The orientation necessary to move beyond this array of cultural claimants required ...
... individuals to that world endlessly coalesce to produce some new totality, some new finite, particular world, which then ... individual responses, we mesh with a totality that is itself finite, particu- lar, historically specific – and ...
... individual rights, afforded the only convincing frame- work for a modern liberal politics. On that basis, he specified a humble, pluralistic mode of collective world-making that he deemed truer to the human condition than Gentile's ...
... individual responsibility, Gentile sensed that a mass secular age is likely to fall into irony, cyni- cism, indifference, perhaps mere consumerism or some mindless popular culture – anything but the sense of collective history-making ...