Gentile and modernity

Coli, Daniela (author), Lloyd, Lizzie (translator) and Wakefield, James R. M. (translator) 2014. Gentile and modernity. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 20 (1-2) , pp. 137-166.

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Abstract

This essay situates Gentile in the debate over the meaning and value of 'modernity' as interpreted by post-War commentators such as Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas and Leo Strauss. Coli shows how Gentile drew upon his predecessors as he developed his actual idealist conception of the relation between thinking, the thinker and the world. Gentile's response to the multi-faceted problem of modernity combines reactionary and progressive elements: the central threads of western culture, he believes, can and should be retained, though updated, refined and reconfigured to rid them of the untenable falsehoods in which the old traditions, with their 'methods of transcendence', had left them tangled.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics Schools > Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Additional Information:	This is a translation by Lizzie Lloyd and James Wakefield of an article originally written in Italian by Daniela Coli.
Publisher:	Imprint Academic
ISSN:	1744-9413
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2025 09:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/112102

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