Giovanni Gentile is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Giovanni Gentile as Italian philosopher, educator, fascist theoretician and politician (1875-1944).
Giovanni Gentile was born at Castelvetrano in 1875. His recorded nationality is Italy. He studied at Liceo classico statale L. Ximenes and Scuola Normale Superiore. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at Istituto comprensivo Campobasso "Mario Pagano", University of Palermo and University of Pisa.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Serena Medal (1928) and Order of the German Eagle.
That the work was done from Italy matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Giovanni Gentile died in 1944, aged 69. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Serena Medal — 1928
- Order of the German Eagle
- Held posts at Istituto comprensivo Campobasso "Mario Pagano", University of Palermo and University of Pisa
- Fields: philosophy
