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Post-modernism believes in nothing, not even unbelief. Hence it is a genial version of nihilism, and the flip side of despair. Like skepticism (from which it descends), it is healthy insofar as it rejects all dogmas; but unhealthy insofar as it substitutes its own, while eating its own essence. This book diagnoses this disease, and offers irony as its cure. What failure of nerve did to Hellenism, strength of character must do for the decline of the best. Humor, laughter, and detachment are the gifts of historical art, and of Socratic science. As we take refuge in the myth of truth, we must realize that there is no truth in myth, and no comfort in illusion, except the lie of immortality

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface to the Second Edition -- ‎Notes on Text and Translation -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction -- ‎Chapter 2. Eternal/Provisional -- ‎1. Spaces -- ‎2. Times -- ‎Chapter 3. Materialism/Idealism -- ‎1. Anti-Bukharin -- ‎2. Anti-Croce -- ‎Chapter 4. Structure/Superstructure -- ‎1. Politics -- ‎2. Relations -- ‎Chapter 5. State/Civil Society -- ‎1. Bobbio -- ‎2. Machiavelli -- ‎Chapter 6. War of Movement/War of Position -- ‎1. East -- ‎2. Trotsky -- ‎Chapter 7. Revolution/Restoration -- ‎1. Gioberti -- ‎2. Fascism -- ‎Chapter 8. Conclusion -- ‎References -- ‎Name Index -- ‎Subject Index.

Philosophy -- Ethics beyond existentialism and structuralism: Sartre's critique of dialectical reason and the debate with Levi-Strauss -- Foucault's ethics of the self -- Derrida in Heidelberg: the specter of Heidegger's Nazism and the question of ethics -- Richard Rorty's cultural politics: ironist philosophy and the ethics of reading -- History -- From metahistory to the practical past: Hayden White's existentialist philosophy of history -- Hayden White and the ethics of historiography literature -- The ethics of conversion: metaphysical desire in Ren, Girard, and Jean-Paul Sartre -- The ethics of realism: literary history and the sublime in Erich Auerbach's mimesis -- The ethics of philology: Erich Auerbach and the fate of humanism -- Edward Said, orientalism, and the political turn in literary and cultural studies

THIS ARTICLE SEEKS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF LEO STRAUSS'S TEACHING BY EXPLORING THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INTELLECTUAL LINKS BETWEEN STRAUSS AND MARTIN HEIDEGGER. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT STRAUSS'S CLAIMS FOR THE NECESSITY OF TURNING TO THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN ORDER TO RECOVER THE POSSIBILITY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ARE IN PART THE RESULT OF HIS REFLECTIONS ON HEIDEGGER. THE ROLE OF SUCH STUDIES, HOWEVER, IS PROBLEMATIC, GIVEN STRAUSS'S APPARENT UNDERSTANDING OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AS "TRANS-HISTORICAL."

"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."--