This book investigates how to protect freedom from totalitarianism. The author focuses on Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) and his critical successors, Gioacchino Volpe (1876-1971), Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), and Ernesto De Martino (1908-1965). From their perspectives, European humanism could no longer remain elitist and had to be open to a wider audience. Will vertical and horizontal cultural exchanges across various layers cultivate freedom-supporting civilizations?
- ISBN: 978-88-9295-877-7
- Publication date: Mar 2024
- Digital Format: PDF
- Lingua: inglese
- Titolo originale: "ITARIA FASHIZUMU O IKITA SHISOKA TACHI: KUROCHE TO HIHANTEKI KEISHOSHA", Iwanami Shoten, 2017
Takeshi Kurashina, born in 1975, has been granted with a scholarship by the Italian government and studied at the Italian Institute for Historical Studies in Naples. He obtained a PhD at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University. He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Cultural Studies, Kyoto Sangyo University, and his main research field is history of modern Italian thought.