Croce

... Croce Intuition, Expression and Communication By Alan Smallwood BA 3D Design. Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) perhaps the most important philosopher of the twentieth century lived most of his life in Naples born in the Abruzzi hills a elder son of an ancient and wealthy Neapolitan family was for decades Italy's exemplar of the indispensable link between intellect and conscience, a philosopher, historian, and critic his approach is one usually termed neo-idealist his aesthetic derives principally from earlier idealist G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) and Giambatista Vico (1668-1774). Croce's possibly best-known work was published in 1902 Philosophy of the spirit which was divided into four parts "Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and general Linguistics, Logic as the Science of Pure Concept, Philosophy of the Practical, and History: Its Theory and Practice" But my main concern is with Estetica come scienza dell' espressione e linguistica generale or "Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and General Linguistics" within his

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