History as Thought and Action电子书

Cover

Front matter

Title page

Publisher information

Dedication

Preface

Body matter

Introduction: The Dead Past?

1. The Early Development of Croce and Gentile (1893–1903)

Introduction

Croce’s Historical Project and its Problems

‘History Subsumed Under the Concept of Art’ (1893)

Gentile’s Early Development

Gentile’s Criticism of Croce’s Concept of History

Gentile’s ‘The Concept of History’ (1899)

The Controversy between Croce and Gentile about Metaphysical Philosophy of History

History in Croce’s Aesthetics as Science of Expression and General Linguistic (1902)

History at the End of Gentile’s Early Development

2. Croce’s Middle Development and His System (1903–1917)

Introduction

History in the Outlines of Logic as Science of the Pure Concept (1905)

What is Living and What is Dead in the Philosophy of Hegel (1907)

Gentile’s Criticism of Croce’s Interpretation of Hegel

The Further Development of the Philosophy of the Spirit: Philosophy of the Practical (1909)

Logic as Science of the Pure Concept (1909)

Theory and History of Historiography (1912–1917)

Conclusion

3. Gentile’s Middle Development and His System (1903–1923)

Introduction

The Birth of Actualism: ‘The Act of Thought as Pure Act’ (1912)

‘The Method of Immanence’

The System: Theory and Practice (1912–23)

The System: Philosophy and History (1916–23)

Croce’s Criticism of Gentile’s Identity of Philosophy and History

The Ethics of Knowing: System of Logic (1917–23)

Conclusion

4. Guido de Ruggiero’s Early Development (1911–1918)

Introduction

La filosofia contemporanea (Modern Philosophy) (1912)

De Ruggiero’s Criticism of Croce and Gentile

‘Science as Absolute Experience’ (1912)

Morality and History (1912–14)

Problems of Moral Life (1914)

De Ruggiero’s Philosophy of History

‘La pensée italienne et la guerre’ (1916)

Conclusion

5. Collingwood’s Early Development (1889–1917)

Introduction

Oxford and Italian Philosophy

The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico (1913)

Collingwood’s Commentaries on Croce’s Philosophy of the Spirit (1912)

Religion and Philosophy (1912–14)

‘The Devil’ and Evil: Two Steps Forward

The Moment of Kairos: The Albert Memorial Meditations (1915–16)

Collingwood’s First Criticism of Croce’s Theory and History of Historiography (1917)

Truth and Contradiction (1917)

Conclusion

6. Croce, Gentile, and de Ruggiero in the 1920s

Introduction

Croce’s New Essays on Aesthetics (1918–20)

Gentile’s Criticism of Croce’s New Essays and His Own Contribution to Aesthetics

De Ruggiero’s Criticism of Croce and Gentile and His Own Contribution to Aesthetics

Croce’s Criticism of de Ruggiero’s Aesthetics

The Rise of Fascism

The Involvement of Croce, Gentile, and de Ruggiero in the Rise of Fascism

Gentile’s Moral and Political Philosophy in the 1920s

Philosophy of History in Gentile’s Fascist Works

Gentile’s Fascist Historiography

Croce’s Moral and Political Philosophy

The Value of History in Croce’s Moral and Political Philosophy

Croce’s Historiography: The Tetralogy (1925–32)

De Ruggiero’s Moral and Political Philosophy

The Value of History in the Liberal State

De Ruggiero’s Revision of Idealism: La via più ardua

De Ruggiero’s Historiography

Conclusion

7. Collingwood’s Middle Development (1918–1930)

Introduction

Collingwood’s Settlement with Croce (1920)

The Sketch: ‘Libellus de Generatione’ (1920)

The Dissolution of Realism

The Myth of Process

Philosophy and History in the World of Becoming

Painting Out the Sketch 1920–1924

The First Painting: Speculum Mentis (1924)

‘The Nature and Aims of a Philosophy of History’ (1924)

The Ideality of History (1926)

‘Lectures on the Philosophy of History’ (1926)

‘Preliminary Discussion’ (1927)

‘Outlines of a Philosophy of History’ (1928)

The Final Step: The Encapsulation Theory

Conclusion

8. The Later Development of the Italians

Introduction

Gentile’s Philosophy of Art

Gentile’s Later Philosophy of History

The Transcending of Time

History and Action: Genesis and Structure of Society (1944)

Croce’s Final Position: History as Thought and Action (1938)

De Ruggiero’s Return to Reason (1933–1940)

Conclusion

9. Collingwood’s Later Development

Introduction

The Preface to the Series: An Essay on Philosophical Method (1933)

Preparing the Series: Nature and Mind (1933–36)

The Idea of Nature

Preparing the Series: History (1935–37)

The Foundations of the Future

The Programme: ‘Human Nature and Human History’ (1936)

The History of the Idea of History (1936)

The Presuppositions of History: Three Epilegomena (1936)

10. Collingwood’s System

Introduction

The Principles of Art (1938)

Collingwood’s Theory of Understanding

The Principles of History (1939)

An Essay on Metaphysics (1940)

The New Leviathan (1942)

Conclusion: The Living Past

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