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Giovanni Gentile
Sign in to saveItalian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician (1875-1944)
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giovanni
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Castelvetrano
- Place of death
- Florence
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Educated at
- University of Florence
- Employer
- Bocconi University
- Political party
- National Fascist Party
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Movement
- Hegelianism
- Image
- Giovanni Gentile.png
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- place of burial
- Basilica of Santa Croce
- Commons category
- Giovanni Gentile
- date of death
- 1944-00-00
- date of birth
- 1875-00-00
- name in native language
- Giovanni Gentile
- member of
- Royal Academy of Italy
- influenced by
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- birth name
- Giovanni Gentile
- time period
- Italian Fascism
- writing language
- Italian
- Commons Creator page
- Giovanni Gentile
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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".
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