Giovanni Gentile Philosopher

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	May 30, 1875
Birth place	Italy , Castelvetrano
Date of death	April 15, 1944
Place of death	Florence , Italy
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Pedagogy Dialectic Immanence

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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
notable idea	Fascism Actual idealism
philosophical school	Idealism Metaphysics