Benedetto Croce

The Honourable

Benedetto Croce

KOCI, COSML
Member o the Italian Senate
In office
8 Mey 1948 – 20 November 1952
ConstituencyNaples
Member o the Italian Constituent Assembly
In office
25 Juin 1946 – 31 Januar 1948
ConstituencyAt-large
Meenister o Public Eddication
In office
15 Juin 1920 – 4 Julie 1921
Prime MeenisterGiovanni Giolitti
Precedit biAndrea Torre
Succeedit biOrso Mario Corbino
Member o the Italian Ryal Senate
In office
26 Januar 1910 – 24 Juin 1946
MonarchVictor Emmanuel III
Personal details
Born25 Februar 1866(1866-02-25)
Pescasseroli, Italy
Dee'd20 November 1952(1952-11-20) (aged 86)
Naples, Italy
Spoose(s)Adele Rossi (m. 1914; d. 1952)
Domestic partnerAngelina Zampanelli (m. 1893; her d. 1913)
BairnsElena, Alda, Silvia, Lidia
ProfessionHistorian, writer, laundainer
ReligionNone (Christian atheism)[1][2][3]
Signatur

Filosofie career
Era20t-century
RegionWastren filosofie
SchuilIdealism
Leeberalism
Historism[4] (storicismo)
Main interests
History, aesthetics, politics
Notable ideas
Liberism
Aesthetic expressivism[5] (airt expresses emotions, nae ideas)[6]

Benedetto Croce (Italian: [beneˈdetto ˈkroːtʃe]; 25 Februar 1866 – 20 November 1952) wis an Italian idealist philosopher, historian an politeecian. He wrote on numerous topics, includin filosofie, history, historiografie an aesthetics. He wis a leeberal, awtho he opponed laissez-faire free tred an haed conseederable influence on ither Italian intellectuals, includin baith Marxist Antonio Gramsci an fascist Giovanni Gentile.

References

  1. Benedetto Croce (1942). Why we cannot not call ourselves Christians. La Critica. Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. Marcello Pera (10 October 2013). Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians: The Religious Roots of Free Societies. Encounter Books. p. 219.
  3. Roberto Pertici (21 October 2007). "Quando Benedetto Croce dialogava su Dio". l'Occidentale. Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. Robin Headlam Wells, Glenn Burgess, Rowland Wymer (eds.), Neo-historicism: Studies in Renaissance Literature, History, and Politics, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2000, p. 3.
  5. Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes, The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge, 2002, ch. 11: "Expressivism: Croce and Collingwood."
  6. Benedetto Croce, Breviario di estetica, 1912: "Not the idea, but the feeling, is what confers upon art the airy lightness of a symbol: an aspiration enclosed in the circle of a representation—that is art." [Non l'idea, ma il sentimento è quel che conferisce all'arte l'aerea leggerezza del simbolo: un'aspirazione chiusa nel giro di una rappresentazione, ecco l'arte.]
  7. Lorenzo Benadusi, Giorgio Caravale, George L. Mosse's Italy: Interpretation, Reception, and Intellectual Heritage, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, p. 17