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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno XX , n° 2, Dicembre 2002 ( Contributi ) pag. 40-54
A NEW LOOK AT CROCE'S HISTORICISM
TOM ROCKMORE
Duquesne University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The aim of this informal paper is to direct (or redirect) attention to the importance of Croce's historicism. Though he is sometimes described as the best known Italian intellectual since Galileo, and though his influence remains strong in Italy, his impact outside Italy is not as important as it should be. Other than through Collingwood1, his only well known
English-language disciple, Croce has had very little influence on those writing in English. His theories, including his historicism, on which I will be focusing here, are only infrequently discussed in English, especially by philosophers2.
Historicism is a doctrine which receives almost no attention in Englishspeaking lands but looms very large in Italian thought. A philosopher from the US, a country with a very short history, and a basically unhistorical conception of philosophy, who visits Italy, a country with a very long history, cannot fail to be struck by the widespread philosophical interest in historicism, which extends backward at least to Giambattista Vico, perhaps still the single most important Italian philosopher.
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