The Anti-Gentilians during the Fascist Regime

Abstract

This article reconstructs an important aspect of fascist ideology: the critiques directed by the main political and cultural groupings among Italian fascists against Giovanni Gentile, from 1922 until his death in 1944. This article seeks to make a significant contribution to the debate on the part played by Gentile during the fascist regime, demonstrating the way in which, and the extent to which, fascism, as realized, represented a form of totalitarianism quite different from the one he had conceived in his theory.