Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. PART I. Introduction
5. 1. A Strange History (Bobbio I) 3
6. 2. Idealism and Sensism (Rosmini I) 7
7. 3. Philosophies Imported and Contested (Galluppi I) 11
8. 4. Experience and Ideology (Galluppi II) 14
9. 5. Restoration and Reaction (Rosmini II) 24
10. 6. The Mother Idea (Rosmini III) 27
11. 7. Primacy (Gioberti I) 36
12. 8. The Ideal Formula (Gioberti II) 40
13. 9. A Natural Method (Mamiani) 45
14. 10. Revolution and Recirculation (Spaventa) 48
15. 11. Facts and Laws (Villari) 53
16. 12. Real and Ideal (De Sanctis) 60
17. 13. Resurgence (Fiorentino and Florenzi Waddington) 66
18. 14. Matter and Idea (Labriola) 77
19. 15. No Speculative Movement (Barzellotti) 86
20. 16. A Revelation (Croce I) 90
21. 17. History under Art (Croce II) 92
22. 18. What Is Distinct? (Croce III) 99
23. 19. What Is Living? (Croce IV) 106
24. 20. What Is Dead? (Croce V) 112
25. 21. Materialism (Gentile I) 118
26. 22. Idealism (Gentile II) 126
27. 23. Actualism (Gentile III) 131
28. 24. Manifestos (Croce and Gentile) 142
29. 25. Common Sense and Good Sense (Gramsci I) 147
30. 26. The Religion of Liberty (Croce VI) 153
31. 27. Philosophy in Prison (Gramsci II) 159
32. 28. Still a Strange History (Bobbio II) 163
33. Notes to Part I 173
34. PART II. Translations
35. 1. Baron Pasquale Galluppi of Tropea. Elements of Philosophy 193
36. 2. Antonio Rosmini. A Sketch of Modern Philosophy 245
37. 3. Vincenzo Gioberti. The Moral and Political Primacy of the Italians 264
38. 4. Vincenzo Gioberti. Introduction to the Study of Philosophy 278
39. 5. Count Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere. The Renewal of the Ancestral Italian Philosophy 312
40. 6. Bertrando Spaventa. The Character and Development of Italian Philosophy from the Sixteenth Century Until Our Time 343
41. 7. Pasquale Villari. Positive Philosophy and Historical Method 371
42. 8. Francesco De Sanctis. The Principle of Realism 401
43. 9. Francesco De Sanctis. The Ideal 413
44. 10. Marianna Bacinetti Florenzi Waddington. Pantheism as the Foundation of the True and the Good 418
45. 11. Marianna Bacinetti Florenzi Waddington. Remarks on Pantheism: The Infinite, the Finite, God, and Man 422
46. 12. Francesco Fiorentino. Letters on The New Science to the Marchesa Florenzi Waddington 429
47. 13. Francesco Fiorentino. Positivism and Idealism 447
48. 14. Antonio Labriola. History, Philosophy of History, Sociology, and Historical Materialism 463
49. 15. Benedetto Croce. History Brought Under the General Concept of Art 484
50. 16. Benedetto Croce. Logic as Science of the Pure Concept 515
51. 17. Benedetto Croce. What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Hegel 533
52. 18. Giovanni Gentile. The Philosophy of Praxis 642
53. 19. Giovanni Gentile. The Rebirth of Idealism 665
54. 20. Giovanni Gentile. The Act of Thinking as Pure Act 683
55. 21. Giovanni Gentile. The Foundations of Actual Idealism 695
56. 22. Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals 706
57. 23. A Reply by Italian Authors, Professors, and Journalists to the ‘Manifesto’ of the Fascist Intellectuals 713
58. 24. Antonio Gramsci. Notebooks: 11 (1932−3), Introduction to the Study of Philosophy 717
59. 25. Benedetto Croce. History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century: Epilogue 753
60. 26. Antonio Gramsci. Letters from Prison 762
61. References and Abbreviations 779
62. Name Index 805
63. General Index 825