Croce on history aesthetic defiguring / Massimo Verdicchio.
| Author/creator | Verdicchio, Massimo, 1945- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Peter Lang, [2021] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Vico, Kant, and Hegel -- Art and history in Croce's early writings -- Theory and history of historiography -- History as the story of liberty -- The character of modern philosophy -- Universal history and philosophy of history -- Philosophy and historiography -- Revisiting Hegel. |
| Abstract | "The book is a critical reading of all the major writings on history by Benedetto Croce, which has never been attempted before. The study is not a summary but a critical assessment based on the relevance of Croce's aesthetics for his concept of history. My account differs from previous studies which are characterized by the exclusion or by minimizing the aesthetic, a process I call "defiguring." Within this framework Croce's concept of history is not a total philosophy but only an allegory of history: a narrative of the impossibility of history. In other words, Croce's history is not unlike his definition of Hegel's Phenomenology or his system as fiction. It is also not unlike Vico's New Science , the other major influence on Croce's concept of history, as an imaginative science. My study realigns Croce's concept of history with Hegel's and Vico's to redefine, thanks to Croce, how we understand history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Verdicchio, Massimo, 1945- Croce on history New York : Peter Lang, [2021] 9781433178948 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020047314 |
| ISBN | 9781433178979 (mobi) |
| ISBN | 9781433178955 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781433178962 (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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