{"product_id":"2940012760289","title":"THE REFORM OF EDUCATION","description":"PAGE\u003cbr\u003e        Introduction                                               vii\u003cbr\u003e     I. Education and Nationality                                    3\u003cbr\u003e    II. Education and Personality                                   18\u003cbr\u003e   III. The Fundamental Antinomy of Education                       40\u003cbr\u003e    IV. Realism and Idealism in the Concept of Culture              63\u003cbr\u003e     V. The Spirituality of Culture                                 85\u003cbr\u003e    VI. The Attributes of Culture                                  110\u003cbr\u003e   VII. The Bias of Realism                                        139\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. The Unity of Education                                     166\u003cbr\u003e    IX. Character and Physical Education                           192\u003cbr\u003e     X. The Ideal of Education                                     219\u003cbr\u003e    XI. Conclusion                                                 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortly after Trieste fell into Italian hands, a series of lectures was\u003cbr\u003earranged for the school teachers of the city, in order to welcome them\u003cbr\u003eto their new duties as citizens and officials of Italy. The task of\u003cbr\u003eopening the series was assigned to Giovanni Gentile, Professor of\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy in the University of Rome, who delivered the lectures which\u003cbr\u003econstitute the present volume. At my request Signor Gentile has\u003cbr\u003erewritten the first chapter, eliminating some of the more local of the\u003cbr\u003eallusions which the nature of the original occasion called forth, and\u003cbr\u003eSenatore Croce has very generously contributed his illuminating\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. The volume as it stands is more than a treatise on\u003cbr\u003eeducation: it is at one and the same time an introduction to the thought\u003cbr\u003eof one of the greatest of living philosophers, and an introduction to\u003cbr\u003ethe study of all philosophy. If the teachers of Trieste were able to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand and to enjoy a philosophic discussion of their chosen work,\u003cbr\u003ewhy should not the teachers of America?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. E. S.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of this book has been working in the same field with me for\u003cbr\u003eover a quarter of a century, ever since the time when we undertook--he a\u003cbr\u003every young man, and I somewhat his senior--to shake Italy out of the\u003cbr\u003edoze of naturalism and positivism back to idealistic philosophy; or, as\u003cbr\u003eit would be better to say, to philosophy pure and simple, if indeed\u003cbr\u003ephilosophy is always idealism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether we founded a review, the _Critica_, and kept it going by our\u003cbr\u003econtributions; together we edited collections of classical authors; and\u003cbr\u003etogether we engaged in many lively controversies. And it seems indeed as\u003cbr\u003ethough we really succeeded in laying hold of and again firmly\u003cbr\u003ere-establishing in Italy the tradition of philosophical studies, thus\u003cbr\u003ewelding a chain which evidently has withstood the strain and destructive\u003cbr\u003efury of the war and its afterclaps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy this I do not mean to imply that our gradual achievements were the\u003cbr\u003eresult of a definite preconcerted plan. Our work was the spontaneous\u003cbr\u003econsequence of our spontaneous mental development and of the spontaneous\u003cbr\u003eagreement of our minds. And therefore this common task, too, gradually\u003cbr\u003ebecoming differentiated in accordance with the peculiarities of our\u003cbr\u003etemperaments, our tendencies, and our attitudes, resulted in a kind of\u003cbr\u003edivision of labour between us. So that whereas I by preference have\u003cbr\u003edevoted my attention to the history of literature, Gentile has\u003cbr\u003ededicated himself more particularly to the history of philosophy and\u003cbr\u003eespecially of Italian philosophy, not only as a thinker but as a\u003cbr\u003escholar too, and as a philologist. He may be said to have covered the\u003cbr\u003eentire field from the Middle Ages to the present time by his works on\u003cbr\u003eScholasticism in Italy, on Bruno, on Telesio, on Renaissance\u003cbr\u003ephilosophy, on Neapolitan philosophy from Genovesi to Galluppi, on\u003cbr\u003eRosmini, on Gioberti, and on the philosophical writers from 1850 to\u003cbr\u003e1900. And though his comprehensive _History of Italian Philosophy_,\u003cbr\u003epublished in parts, is far from being finished, the several sections\u003cbr\u003eof it have been elaborated and cast in the various monographs which I\u003cbr\u003ehave just mentioned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to this, Gentile has been devoting special attention to\u003cbr\u003ereligious problems. He took a very important part in the inquiry into\u003cbr\u003eand criticism of \"modernism,\" the hybrid nature of which he laid bare,\u003cbr\u003eexposing both the inner contradictions and the scanty sincerity of the\u003cbr\u003emovement.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078907576560,"sku":"2940012760289","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012760289_p0.jpg?v=1763572344","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012760289","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}