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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806266403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Exeter, England : , : Imprint Academic, , 2015

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

©2015

ISBN

1-84540-851-9

1-84540-850-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Disciplina

195

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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...