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Giovanni Gentile (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni dʒenˈtiːle]; May 30 1875 – April 15 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher and politician a peer of Benedetto Croce. He described himself as ‘the philosopher of Fascism’ and ghostwrote A Doctrine of Fascism (1932) for Benito Mussolini. He also devised his own system of philosophy Actual Idealism.

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birth date
1875-05-30
birth place
Italy, Castelvetrano
death date
1944-04-15
death place
Florence, Italy
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Benedetto Croce, Benito Mussolini, Ugo Spirito
influenced by
Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Plato, Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, Vincenzo Gioberti, Pasquale Galluppi, Bertrando Spaventa, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giambattista Vico, Benedetto Croce, Donato_Jaja
main interest
Pedagogy, Dialectic, Immanence
notableIdea
Fascism, Actual idealism
philosophicalSchool
Idealism, Metaphysics

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