Individuality and America. The influence of Friederich Meinecke in Antonello Gerbi’s Latin American studies
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This essay aims to present a new reading of some passages of Antonello Gerbi' s seminal work The dispute of the New World.History of a polemic, 1750-1900, to highlight the critical historicist influences underpinning Gerbi' s text.The study takes the form of a comparison of the writings of Antonello Gerbi and Friedrich Meinecke, one of the leading exponents of the philosophical current in question, selecting passages from Meinecke's last book where their "cultural proximity" is more explicit and striking.
Author: Roberto Colonna
Institution: University of Naples Federico II
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409792126