This essay reconstructs the idea of work in the tradition of Italian idealism and neo-idealism: from Bertrando Spaventa to Benedetto Croce to Giovanni Gentile, Ugo Spirito, as well as other philosophers who started from neo-idealism and then also met different philosophical currents: Adriano Tlgher, Felice Battaglia and Antimo Negri. Neo-idealism emerges as a thought linked to a productivist vision of civilization in which work plays a key role. For Gentile, for example, work is a system of purposes hierarchically placed with respect to the supreme end of men’s dominion over nature. Both Gentile and Croce, however, developing the position of Spaventa, tried to think of technique not as an end but as a means to realize human values.
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Chapter Title
Neoidealismo e dintorni. La vita come ‘lavoro’
Authors
Luca Basile, Salvatore Cingari
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.142
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Idee di lavoro e di ozio per la nostra civiltà
Editors
Giovanni Mari, Francesco Ammannati, Stefano Brogi, Tiziana Faitini, Arianna Fermani, Francesco Seghezzi, Annalisa Tonarelli
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Number of Pages
1894
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7
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979-12-215-0245-9
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979-12-215-0319-7
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0320-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919