Author: Giovanni Gentile

Giovanni Gentile (May 30, 1875 – April 15, 1944) was an Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher and politician He described himself as ‘the philosopher of Fascism’, and ghostwrote A Doctrine of Fascism (1932) for Benito Mussolini.

The politic of Fascism revolves wholly about the concept of the national State; and accordingly it has points of contact with nationalist doctrines, along with distinctions from the latter which it is important to bear in mind. (More…)