PHILOSOPHER

Giovanni Gentile

1875 - 1944

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Giovanni Gentile ( jen-TEE-lay, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni dʒenˈtiːle]; 30 May 1875 – 15 April 1944) was an Italian pedagogue, philosopher, and politician. He, alongside Benedetto Croce, was one of the major exponents of Italian idealism in Italian philosophy, and also devised his own system of thought, which he called "actual idealism" or "actualism", which has been described as "the subjective extreme of the idealist tradition". Described by himself and by Benito Mussolini as the "philosopher of fascism", he was influential in providing an intellectual foundation for Italian fascism, notably through writing the 1925 Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals, and part of the 1932 "The Doctrine of Fascism" with Mussolini. As Minister for Public Education, he introduced in 1923 the so-called Gentile Reform, the first major piece of legislation passed by the Fascist government, which would last in some capacity until 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Gentile is the 329th most popular philosopher (down from 309th in 2019), the 951st most popular biography from Italy (down from 831st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Giovanni Gentile was a philosopher and politician in Italy. He is most famous for his theory of fascism, which he developed in the 1920s.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Giovanni Gentile ranks 329 out of 1,267. Before him are Aenesidemus, Gennadius Scholarius, Cleobulus, G. E. Moore, Uriel da Costa, and Hugh of Saint Victor. After him are Isaac Abarbanel, Asanga, Juan Luis Vives, Martianus Capella, Han Yu, and Jacobus Arminius.

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Among people born in 1875, Giovanni Gentile ranks 29. Before him are Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thomas Burke, Fritz Kreisler, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, and Edgar Wallace. After him are William D. Leahy, Henri Lebesgue, Antonio Machado, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Paul Landowski, and Matthias Erzberger. Among people deceased in 1944, Giovanni Gentile ranks 50. Before him are Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Gustav Bauer, Glenn Miller, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Mohammed Alim Khan, and Werner von Haeften. After him are Max Jacob, Eduard Dietl, Nikolai Vatutin, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, Princess Mafalda of Savoy, and Florence Foster Jenkins.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Gentile ranks 951 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Primaticcio (1504), Maximilian Sforza (1493), Clementia of Hungary (1293), Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus (-3), Maurus Servius Honoratus (363), and Francesco Cossiga (1928). After him are Niccolò Piccinni (1728), Fausta (289), Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1810), John William Waterhouse (1849), Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (-2), and Frank Costello (1891).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Giovanni Gentile ranks 26. Before him are Julius Evola (1898), Benedetto Croce (1866), Giorgio Agamben (1942), Marsilius of Padua (1275), Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646), and Pietro Pomponazzi (1462). After him are Antonio Negri (1933), Aristoxenus (-360), Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484), Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1313), Thomas Cajetan (1469), and Lucilio Vanini (1585).

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