Croce on History: Aesthetic Defiguring

by Massimo Verdicchio

The book is the first critical reading of all the major writings on history by Benedetto Croce. The study is not a summary but a critical assessment based on the relevance of Croce's aesthetics for his concept of history. This account differs from previous studies which are characterized by the excluding or by minimizing the aesthetic, a process the author calls "defiguring." Within this framework Croce's concept of history is not a total philosophy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143317894X
• ISBN13: 9781433178948
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 136 Pages