Croce, Benedetto
Born it Percasseroli (Abruzzi) Italy, February 25, 1866. Senator, Minister of Public Education. Lives in Naples. Has influenced every branch of Italian culture.
Considers all human experience an historical experience, philosophy being the methodology of history.
His aesthetics defines art as an expression of sentiment, as a language. His logic emphasizes the distinction of categories, reducing opposition to a derivative of distinction. According to his ethics, economics is an autonomous and absolute moment of spirit. His theory of history regards all history as contemporaneous. His philosophy is one of the greatest attempts at elaboration of pure concepts entirely appropriate to historical experience.
B. Croce,
Estetica, 1902;
Logica, 1905-1909;
Filosofia della prattica (1909) ;
Teoria e storia della storiografia, 1917;
What is Living and What is Dead of Hegel (tr. 1915);
Historical Materialism and Econ. of K. Marx (tr. 1922);
History as the Story of Liberty (tr. 1941).
— L.V.