Abstract

One of the very few Italian studies of American thought, this book has the merit of bringing to light an aspect of American philosophy hitherto unfamiliar to the Italian public; namely, religious and philosophical idealism, from Jonathan Edwards and the Transcendentalists to Josiah Royce. An appendix on the Cambridge Platonists concludes the essays. Although the essays are regarded by the author as critical and historical, they do not manifest a direct, sensitive contact with the primary sources.--L. L.