Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy / / David D. Roberts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Roberts, David D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

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 signi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Historicism, Fascism, and the Wider Significance of the Modern Italian Experience
• 1. An Indirect Italian Angle on a Few Big Historical Questions
• 2. Franchini's Disillusionment: Rereading the Intervista su Croce from Abroad
• 3. The Revolt against Croce in Post-Second World War Italian Culture
• 4. Croce in America: Influence, Misunderstanding, and Neglect (with a supplement on the fortunes of Giovanni Gentile in the United States and Canada)
• 5. Historicism, Liberalism, Fascism: Rethinking the Croce-Gentile Schism
• 6. Maggi's Croce, Sasso's Gentile, and the Riddles of Twentieth- Century Italian Intellectual History
• 7. How Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning
• 8. Croce, Crocean Historicism, and Contemporary History after Fascism
• 9. Crocean Historicism and Post-Totalitarian Thought
• 10. What Is Living and What Is Dead? Ginzburg's Microhistory, Croce's Historicism, and the Search for a Postmodern Historiography
• 11. The Stakes of Misreading: Hayden White, Carlo Ginzburg, and the Crocean Legacy
• 12. Postmodernism and History: An Unfinished Agenda
• Notes
• Index