Description
Book SynopsisFrom around 1800, shortly before Pasquale Galluppi''s first book, until 1950, just before Benedetto Croce died, the most formative influences on Italian philosophers were Kant and the post-Kantians, especially Hegel. In many ways, the Italian philosophers of this period lived in turbulent but creative times, from the Restoration to the Risorgimento and the rise and fall of Fascism.
From Kant to Croce is a comprehensive, highly readable history of the main currents and major figures of modern Italian philosophy, described in a substantial introduction that details the development of the discipline during this period. Brian P. Copenhaver and Rebecca Copenhaver provide the only up-to-date introduction in English to Italy''s leading modern philosophers by translating and analysing rare and original texts and by chronicling the lives and times of the philosophers who wrote them. Thoroughly documented and highly readable, From Kant to Croce examines modern Italian p
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'From Kant to Croce is the first anthology devoted to presenting modern Italian philosophy to an Anglo-American readership... This book and the civic philosophy contained within will undoubtedly be received positively by the larger intellectual community, including the students of the Renaissance.' -- Rocco Rubini Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:01:2014
Table of Contents
PART ONE: Introduction * A Strange History (Bobbio I) * Idealism and Sensism (Rosmini I) * Philosophies Imported and Contested (Galluppi I) * Experience and Ideology (Galluppi II) * Restoration and Reaction (Rosmini II) * The Mother Idea (Rosmini III) * Primacy (Gioberti I) * The Ideal Formula (Gioberti II) * A Natural Method (Mamiani) * Revolution and Recirculation (Spaventa) * Facts and Laws (Villari) * Real and Ideal (De Sanctis) * Resurgence (Fiorentino and Florenzi Waddington) * Matter and Idea (Labriola) * No Speculative Movement (Barzellotti) * A Revelation (Croce I) * History Under Art (Croce II) * What is Distinct? (Croce III) * What is Living? (Croce IV) * What is Dead? (Croce V) * Materialism (Gentile I) * Idealism (Gentile II) * Actualism (Gentile III) * Manifestos (Croce and Gentile) * Common Sense and Good Sense (Gramsci I) * The Religion of Liberty (Croce VI) * Philosophy in Prison (Gramsci II) * Still a Strange History (Bobbio II) PART TWO: Translations * Galluppi, Elements * Rosmini, A Sketch * Gioberti, Primacy * Gioberti, The Ideal Formula * Mamiani, Renewal * Spaventa, Italian Philosophy * Villari, Positive Philosophy * De Sanctis, Realism * De Sanctis, The Ideal * Florenzi Waddington, Pantheism I * Florenzi Waddington, Pantheism II * Fiorentino, Vico and Kant * Fiorentino, Positivism * Labriola, Materialism * Croce, The Concept of Art * Croce, Logic * Croce, The Philosophy of Hegel * Gentile, Praxis * Gentile, Idealism * Gentile, The Act of Thinking * Gentile, Actual Idealism *Manifesto I *Manifesto II * Gramsci, Introduction to Philosophy * Croce, Liberty * Gramsci, Letters
