General Information

Author/Creator

Roberts, David D., 1943-

Language

English.

Published

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2007.

Physical Description

vi, 370 p. ; 24 cm.

Series

Toronto Italian studies

Subjects

Subject

Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952.

Gentile, Giovanni, 1875-1944.

Fascism > Italy > History > 20th century.

Historicism.

Italy > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Italy > History > 20th century.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

David D. Roberts.

Content

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.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

9780802093080

0802093086

9780802094940

0802094945

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	945.09 ROB		General Stacks	-

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