History: As The Story Of Liberty
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
What does it mean for history to be the unfolding story of human freedom? In History as the Story of Liberty, the towering Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce presents his most ambitious and mature philosophical argument: that all genuine history is, at its core, the history of liberty. Written against the backdrop of rising European totalitarianism in the late 1930s, the work chronicles the relationship between human thought, action, and the inexorable drive toward freedom, positioning the historian not merely as a recorder of events but as an active participant in the moral life of civilization. Croce's prose is measured yet impassioned, uniting the rigorous traditions of German idealism — particularly the influence of Hegel — with a distinctly Italian humanist sensibility. As one of the twentieth century's foremost philosophers of history, he argues with compelling authority that history cannot be separated from life itself, and that every act of historical understanding is simultaneously an act of ethical engagement. A landmark of European intellectual thought, this work continues to challenge readers to reconsider the very purpose of historical inquiry — and to ask what it truly means to be free.
Author: Benedetto Croce
Format: Hardback
Published: 1941, George Allen and Unwin Limited
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
What does it mean for history to be the unfolding story of human freedom? In History as the Story of Liberty, the towering Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce presents his most ambitious and mature philosophical argument: that all genuine history is, at its core, the history of liberty. Written against the backdrop of rising European totalitarianism in the late 1930s, the work chronicles the relationship between human thought, action, and the inexorable drive toward freedom, positioning the historian not merely as a recorder of events but as an active participant in the moral life of civilization. Croce's prose is measured yet impassioned, uniting the rigorous traditions of German idealism — particularly the influence of Hegel — with a distinctly Italian humanist sensibility. As one of the twentieth century's foremost philosophers of history, he argues with compelling authority that history cannot be separated from life itself, and that every act of historical understanding is simultaneously an act of ethical engagement. A landmark of European intellectual thought, this work continues to challenge readers to reconsider the very purpose of historical inquiry — and to ask what it truly means to be free.