ABSTRACT
A re-newed interest in, and appreciation of, the problems of history, both as the theory of historical process and as historiography became one of the marked characteristics of twentieth century thought and this book discusses Benedetto Croce’s historical writings in that context.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |85 pages
The Realm of Naples and the Ethico-Political Concept of History
chapter |16 pages
Ethos and Idyll in History
chapter |24 pages
Naples, 1799: Education by Revolution
chapter |38 pages
Naples, The Realm: A Study in Historical Failure
chapter |5 pages
Ethos and Polis : The Ethico-Political Concept of History
part |80 pages
The Anatomy of Decadence: The Baroque Age in Italy
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
chapter |8 pages
The Baroque
chapter |9 pages
Positivity and Negativity in History
chapter |9 pages
The Counter Reformation
chapter |22 pages
The Silence of Great Poetry
chapter |23 pages
The Philosophy of an Unphilosophic Age
chapter |3 pages
The Moral Life
part |100 pages
The Idea of Liberty: The Liberal Formation of Europe in the Nineteenth Century
