Giovanni Gentile

1875 - 1944

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movement: Hegelianism

country of citizenship: Kingdom of Italy

languages spoken, written or signed: Italian

educated at: Scuola Normale Superiore, Liceo classico statale L. Ximenes, University of Florence

occupation: philosopher, pedagogue, politician, university teacher, literary critic

award received: Serena Medal, Gautieri Award, Order of the German Eagle

position held: minister of Public Education of the Kingdom of Italy, Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore, senator of the Kingdom of Italy

student of: Alessandro d'Ancona, Amedeo Crivellucci

influenced by: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Giovanni Gentile (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni dʒenˈtiːle]; 30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian philosopher, educator, and politician. Described by himself and by Benito Mussolini as the "philosopher of fascism", he was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for Italian fascism, and ghostwrote part of "The Doctrine of Fascism" (1932) with Mussolini. He was involved in the resurgence of Hegelian idealism in Italian philosophy and also devised his own system of thought, which he called "actual idealism" or "actualism", which has been described as "the subjective extreme of the idealist tradition". Source: Wikipedia (en)