E-raamat: Italian Philosophy: From Aquinas to Eco: Elliot Vane Philosophy * Italian, #1

Italian philosophy has shaped the way the Western world thinks about power, meaning, and the relationship between ideas and action — yet its distinct tradition is rarely told as a single story.Italian Philosophy: From Aquinas to Eco traces seven centuries of Italian thought, from Thomas Aquinas's medieval synthesis of faith and reason through Machiavelli's unflinching analysis of political power, Vico's revolutionary philosophy of history, Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony, and Umberto Eco's contemporary semiotics. What unites these thinkers across radically different eras is a persistent question: how do ideas actually function in the world — and who decides what counts as truth Each chapter situates a major figure or movement within its historical moment, from the fragmented city-states of the Renaissance to the political upheavals of unification and fascism, revealing how Italian philosophers consistently engaged thought as a tool for understanding and transforming the material conditions of human life. The result is a tradition less interested in pure abstraction than in the concrete ways philosophy shapes institutions, culture, and power.From Aquinas to Eco is the first volume in the Italian series of the Elliot Vane Philosophy collection, offering accessible entry points to the major philosophical traditions of Europe.