Croce and Revolution

Authors

  • Girolamo Cotroneo Università degli Studi di Messina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/2139

Keywords:

Croce, Historicism, European Revolution, History

Abstract

“Revolution” is, certainly, for Croce, neither a “strong” storiographic category, nor a decisive historical canon of interpretation. It is, hovever, not even a simple empiric data, a phenomenon that Croce, even though not exalting it, could undervalue. This leads to the fact that in his works there is no true and proper analysis of the phenomenon of revolution, but a historical evaluation of the European revolutions, starting with the French revolution: a highly diversified evaluation as revealed by the diverse appraisals, dictated by his ethical and political vision and by his evaluation of the results of the French revolution of 1789,  the neapolitan one of 1799 , the “liberal” revolutions of 1830 and of 1848, as well as  the Sovietic revolution. All this is, obviously, “guided” by the famous concept of  “the positivism of history”, which did not consent him to reject, as a foreign body to history, a revolutionary event.

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Published

2013-12-05

How to Cite

Cotroneo, G. (2013). Croce and Revolution. Bollettino Filosofico, 28, 126–142. https://doi.org/10.6093/1593-7178/2139

Issue

Vol. 28 (2013): Croce in Between Past and Future

Section

Editorial

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