Thought thinking : the philosophy of Giovanni Gentitle / edited by Bruce Haddock and James Wakefield ; contributors Daniela Coli [and seven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haddock, Bruce, editor.

Wakefield, James, editor.

Coli, Daniela, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Gentitle, Giovanni, 1875-1944.

Gentitle, Giovanni.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

La Vergne, Tennessee : Ingram Book Company, [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

Exeter, England : Imprint Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Italian author Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) occupied a radical position among philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century. He tried in earnest to revolutionize idealist theory, developing a doctrine that retained the idealist conception of the thinking subject as the centre and source of any intelligible reality, while eschewing many of the unwarranted abstractions that had pervaded earlier varieties of idealism and led their adherents astray.Given his great prominence durin...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Publisher information; Body matter; Introduction; Gentile as Historian of Philosophy: The Method of Immanence in Practice; The Integral Philosophical Experience of Actualism; Giovanni Gentile as Moral Philosopher; Gentile, Education and Mind; Gentile and Modernity; The Actuality of Gentile's Philosophy of History; Collingwood, Gentile and Italian Neo-Idealism in Britain; The Method of Immanence; Pure Experience and Historical Reality; The Moral Problem; Basic Concepts of Actualism; Back matter; Notes on Contributors; Also available

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 8, 2015).

ISBN:

1-84540-851-9

1-84540-850-0

OCLC:

915311689