La filosofia italiana di fronte al Grande Fratello. Croce e Franchini lettori di Orwell

The article deals with the reception of George Orwell’s 1984 in Italian philosophy, particularly in Benedetto Croce and Raffaello Franchini. Their notes highlight the novel’s profound philosophical and political structure: specifically, Croce delves into the Big Brother’s apocalyptic setting, which proceeds toward the abolition of the “discipline of thought”; Franchini focuses his attention on the relationship between totalitarianism and history, and especially on the “destruction of the past.”