A Croce Reader - 9781442642591

A Croce ReaderAesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism\nAuthor(s): Massimo Verdicchio\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442642591, 978-1442642591\nSynopsis\nBenedetto Croce was a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century. \n\n A Croce Reader brings together the authors most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents the \""other\"" Croce that has been erased by scholarly tradition, including by Croce himself. Massimo Verdicchio traces the progress of Croce as a thinker, focusing on his philosophy of absolute historicism and its aesthetic implications. Unlike other anthologies, A Croce Reader includes essays from the Aesthetics of 1902 and key studies on Vico, Hegel, and Pirandello. Verdicchios masterful translation of the source material welcomes spe.