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Italian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician (1875-1944)

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Works
30

Top works

  • Opere Italiane; Volume 1
  • Origins and Doctrine of Fascism
  • Ricordi di Giovannino
  • Rosmini e Gioberti ...
  • Frammenti e Lettere

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1990

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italian17th century

Giovanni Gentile (unknown, Olevano Romano – after 1649) was an Italian composer and music teacher. Two sources survive for his life and works: his only surviving work, a teaching-collection of music entitled Solfeggiamenti et ricercari a due voci (Lodovico Grignani, Rome 1642); and the inventory of printed works in the workshop of the Roman printer Sebastiano Testa.[1] In the teaching-collection's frontispiece, Gentile is called "Signor Giovanni Gentile of Olevano" <a href="https://www.last.fm

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Quotes

  • For Fascism...the State and the individual are one, or better, perhaps, "State" and "individual" are terms that are inseparable in a necessary synthesis.
  • How many times has Fascism been accused with obtuse malevolence of barbarity? Well yes: once you understand the true significance of this barbarity we will boast of it, as the expression of the healthy energies which shatter false and baleful idols, and restore the health of the nation within the power of a State conscious of its sovereign rights which are its duties.

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Key facts

Monarch
Victor Emmanuel III
Preceded by
Luigi Federzoni
Succeeded by
Giotto Dainelli Dolfi
Prime minister
Benito Mussolini
Appointed by
Victor Emmanuel III
Born
( 1875-05-29 ) 29 May 1875 , Castelvetrano , Kingdom of Italy
Died
15 April 1944 (1944-04-15) (aged 68), Florence , Kingdom of Italy
Cause of death
Assassination by gunshot
Resting place
Santa Croce, Florence , Italy
Party
National Fascist Party , (1923–1943)
Spouse
Erminia Nudi ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1901 ) ​
Children
6, including Federico
Alma mater
Scuola Normale Superiore , University of Florence
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Neo-Hegelianism
Main interests
Metaphysics , dialectics , pedagogy
Notable ideas
Actual idealism , fascism , immanentism (method of immanence)

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Encyclopedic overview

Giovanni Gentile (/dʒɛnˈtiːleɪ/ jen-TEE-lay; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni dʒenˈtiːle]; 29 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician.

He, alongside Benedetto Croce, was one of the major exponents of Italian idealism in Italian philosophy, and also devised his own system of thought, which he called "actual idealism" or "actualism", which has been described as "the subjective extreme of the idealist tradition".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Giovanni Gentile” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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