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Origins and Doctrine of Fascism: With Selections from Other Works

2 reviews
Giovanni Gentile

Transaction Publishers, 2004

An Important text for the study of (one aspect of) Fascism
This book contains Giovanni Gentile's programmatic essay "Origins and Doctrine of Fascism" as well as excerpts from other works and a short introduction by the editor, A.J. Gregor. Entitled by Mussolini himself as "the Philosopher of Fascism", Gentile is highly important to the study of Fascism, especially if you are interested in Fascist ideological theory rather than political practice (though ...

The Theory Of Mind As Pure Act (1922)

1 review
Giovanni Gentile

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

A theory of the world as structured through consciousness.
I read a 1920s translation of this brilliant philosophical work by Gentile (more remembered for his wrong political leanings - fascism - than his contributions to philosophy). The book is believed to be solipsist (the position that nothing exists except thought/self), but is not so. Gentile does not deny the existency of world, history, etc. But he states that everything is ultimately a ...

Philosophy of Art

1 review
Giovanni Gentile

Cornell University Press, 1972

excellent account of social impact in art
Gentile is better known for his views on politics and education in his native Itlay; but it is from such a cultural setting that his writings on art take flourish, situating them within the collectivist modern world that was in the making. This book should be republished.