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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... simply pluck from some transcendent sphere; we turn even from any belief in some stable 'nature' existing apart from us, the knowledge of which might afford the modern, secular orientation we need. We are radically on our own, but once ...
... simply accumulate ever more knowledge of an external, inde- pendent reality.13 Mind is necessarily more active, even creative, than that – not simply in providing categories of understanding that afford an a priori structure to sense ...
... of the finitude, futility, and loneliness we may feel in a world that simply does not allow for the sort of unified culture, or for the more grandiose, unified sort of collective world-making, 16 Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy.
... simply note that from within the wider Crocean- Gentilian frame, we find, first, the emergence of one kind of totalitar- ian ideal, but it would almost immediately prompt Croce to recast liberal democracy in historicist terms. In doing ...
... simply to have assumed that the relevant Italian ideas were adaptations of what French thinkers like Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras had already elaborated. And other authori- ties were remarkably quick to accept Sternhell's overall ...