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"Benedetto Croce was a historian, humanist, political figure, and the foremost Italian philosopher of the early twentieth-century. A Croce Reader brings together the author's most important works across the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, history, literary criticism, and the Baroque and presents the "other" Croce that has been erased by scholarly tradition, including by Croce himself. Massimo Verdicchio traces the progress of Croce as a thinker, focusing on his philosophy of absolute historicism and its aesthetic implications. Unlike other anthologies, A Croce Reader includes essays from the Aesthetics of 1902 and key studies on Vico, Hegel, and Pirandello. Verdicchio's masterful translation of the source material welcomes specialists and non-specialists alike to discover the "other" Croce for themselves."--

Continental philosophy has traditionally seen philosophy as historical, claiming that there are no new beginnings in the discipline, and that we must revisit the work of earlier thinkers again and again. Yet, continental philosophers rarely argue explicitly for their view of philosophy's past, and the discussions of the topic that exist tend to be riddled with confusion. Here, Robert Piercey asks why, and explores what the continental tradition must do to come to terms with this crisis. Piercey traces the confusion about history back to Hegel, who he argues sends a mixed message about historic

Review essay on the book "Knowledge and Intervention: Studies in Society and Consciousness" by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (a leading Marxist philosopher of India). Real sources of life-rejecting outlook in Indian philosophy. Anti-science bias in much of this philosophy. The role of the Marxists and communists in Indian politics. (DÜI-Sen)

The crisis in contemporary continental philosophy -- Hegel's mixed message to historians of philosophy -- Heidegger and the myth of the primordial -- Ricoeur's entanglements in the aporias of tradition -- Truth in history

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Gloss I-Agamben's Methodology -- Chapter One The History of Philosophical Archaeology from Kant to Agamben -- [1] -- Gloss II-First Beginning and the Before of the Book -- [2] -- Gloss III-Dishomogeneity -- Gloss IV-Genealogy -- Gloss V-ArchÉ -- [3] -- Gloss VI-Archaeology -- Gloss VII-Historical a Priori -- [4] -- Gloss VIII-The Contemporary -- [5] -- [6] -- Chapter Two Toward Agamben's Philosophy of History -- A: The Theological-Philological Axis (Messianic Time) -- [1] -- [2] -- [3] -- B: The Philological-Aesthetical Axis (or, the Benjaminian Agamben) -- [1] -- [2] -- Gloss IX-Messianic Language -- [3] -- Gloss X-Cinematic Montage and History -- Gloss XI-Paradigms and Signatures -- [4] -- Gloss XII-The Historical and the Philological -- [5] -- Gloss XIII-Aesthetics and Epistemology -- [6] -- Chapter Three Ar[t]chaeology -- A: Beauty that Falls -- [1] -- [2] -- [3] -- [4] -- B: Philosophical Archaeology as Artistic Modus Operandi -- [1] -- Gloss XIV-Art Writing -- [2] -- [3] -- [4] -- [5] -- [6] -- [7] -- [8] -- [9] -- [10] -- [11] -- [12] -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.