The soul to the outside: Subject and inner life in Benedetto Croce

Abstract

With the expression soul to the outside it is tried to explain the relation between individual and the universal. This expression has tooken by Croce from the idealist-romantic tradition. It distances him of the modern conceptions, of cartesian origin, that talk about an identical reason and is transparent to itself. Croce's philosophy is ambiguous in this aspect. Thus, from the psychological sentimentality that characterized to all modern Literature and the modern conception of the relation man-world, Croce indeed choses like negative example the Rousseau's Confessions. In this book Rousseaus situates the inner refuge as a scape of the reality and for defending all intimacy of the society's attacks.