Historicism and fascism in modern Italy / David D. Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, David D., 1943-

Series:

Toronto Italian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fascism--Italy--History--20th century.

Fascism.

Italy.

History.

Italy--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952.

Croce, Benedetto.

Gentile, Giovanni, 1875-1944.

Gentile, Giovanni.

Historicism.

Italy--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

vi, 370 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction: Historicism, Fascism, and the Wider Significance of the Modern Italian Experience 3

1 An Indirect Italian Angle on a Few Big Historical Questions 35

2 Franchini's Disillusionment: Rereading the Intervista su Croce from Abroad 54

3 The Revolt against Croce in Post-Second World War Italian Culture 68

4 Croce in America: Influence, Misunderstanding, and Neglect (with a supplement on the fortunes of Giovanni Gentile in the United States and Canada) 81

5 Historicism, Liberalism, Fascism: Rethinking the Croce-Gentile Schism 114

6 Maggi's Croce, Sasso's Gentile, and the Riddles of Twentieth-Century Italian Intellectual History 143

7 How Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning 173

8 Croce, Crocean Historicism, and Contemporary History after Fascism 201

9 Crocean Historicism and Post-Totalitarian Thought 211

10 What Is Living and What Is Dead? Ginzburg's Microhistory, Croce's Historicism, and the Search for a Postmodern Historiography 221

11 The Stakes of Misreading: Hayden White, Carlo Ginzburg, and the Crocean Legacy 237

12 Postmodernism and History: An Unfinished Agenda 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802093080

0802093086

9780802094940

0802094945

OCLC:

122706950