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Literary Criticism Italian

A Croce Reader

Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism

edited by Massimo Verdicchio

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2017
Category
Italian, European, General, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442642591
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $71.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442694361
    Publish Date
    May 2017
    List Price
    $25.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442611429
    Publish Date
    Apr 2017
    List Price
    $34.95

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Benedetto Croce was a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century.

 

A Croce Reader brings together the author’s 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. Verdicchio’s masterful translation of the source material welcomes specialists and non-specialists alike to discover the “other” Croce for themselves.

About the author

Massimo Verdicchio is professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Naming Things, Reading Dante Reading, and The Poetics of Dante’s Paradiso.

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