Pure experience and historical reality

Gentile, Giovanni (author), Lloyd, Lizzie (translator) and Wakefield, James R.M. (translator) 2014. Pure experience and historical reality. Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 20 (1-2) , pp. 277-309.

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Abstract

In this, Gentile's inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Pisa in 1914, he describes his approach to and conception of history. The opening sections of the lecture display a more personal and relaxed, at times effusive side to Gentile's writing as he praises his former teachers, offering readers some insight into his influences and his view of his own philosophical project. In the later sections, he turns to the technical question of how we, as concrete subjects living, thinking and acting in the eternal present, can make sense of the past, which is, by definition, outside the compass of our actual, present thinking. Despite the difficulty of the problem Gentile addresses--a difficulty increased, one suspects, by his habit of expressing questions and answers in his own specialist vocabulary--the lecture form enables him to relax his usual abstruse style, showing us something of himself as a teacher as well as a philosopher.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics Schools > Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Additional Information:	This is a translation of an essay by Giovanni Gentile, translated by Lizzie Lloyd and James Wakefield. The essay was originally published in Italian in 1915.
Publisher:	Imprint Academic
ISSN:	1744-9413
Last Modified:	07 Apr 2025 09:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/112099

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