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 during his lifetime, it is perhaps remarkable that Gentile is so little discussed, and even then so...
The Italian author Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) occupied a radical position among philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century. He tried...
Recent moral philosophers have had little to say about Giovanni Gentile's 'actual idealism, which is widely dismissed as a kind of obscurantist Hegelianism used to conceal flimsy justifications for the state s total impunity over questions of morality and truth. While Gentile is increasingly recognised as a major figure in twentieth-century Italian culture, actual idealism itself has yet to be given a full and impartial philosophical appraisal.
Giovanni Gentile and the State of Contemporary Constructivism represents the first book-length treatment of actual idealist moral theory. Part I...
Recent moral philosophers have had little to say about Giovanni Gentile's 'actual idealism, which is widely dismissed as a kind of obscurantist Heg...
