Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-359) and index
An indirect Italian angle on a few big historical questions -- Franchini's disillusionment : rereading the Intervista su Croce from abroad -- The revolt against Croce in post-Second World War Italian culture -- Croce in America : influence, misunderstanding, and neglect (with a supplement on the fortunes of Giovanni Gentile in the United States and Canada) -- Historicism, liberalism, fascism : rethinking the Croce-Gentile schism -- Maggi's Croce, Sasso's Gentile, and the riddles of twentieth-century Italian intellectual history -- How not to think about fascism and ideology, intellectual antecedents and historical meaning -- Croce, Crocean historicism, and contemporary history after fascism -- Crocean historicism and post-totalitarian thought -- What is living and what is dead? Ginzburg's microhistory, Croce's historicism, and the search for a postmodern historiography -- The stakes of misreading : Hayden White, Carlo Ginzberg, and the Crocean legacy -- Postmodernism and history : an unfinished agenda