Idealism & Experience

<p>Guido de Ruggiero (1888-1948) was perhaps the greatest Italian intellectual historian in the twentieth century. He was a fierce champion of liberalism an ardent opponent of Fascism an insightful critic and interpreter of his contemporaries and a formidable philosopher in his own right. <em>Idealism & Experience: The Philosophy of Guido de Ruggiero</em> comprises eight new critical essays as well as English translations of five of de Ruggiero's most important shorter writings which chart the development of his thought between 1914 and 1946. Taken together these essays reveal the range richness and philosophical sophistication of de Ruggiero's ideas enabling Anglophone readers to appreciate their enduring relevance in our own troubled times.</p>