Crocean, a.2 (and n.)
(ˈkrəʊtʃɪən, ˈkrəʊsɪən)
Also Crocian.
[f. Croce (see below) + -an.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Italian philosopher and statesman Benedetto Croce (1866–1952) or his idealistic ‘philosophy of the spirit’. Also n., a follower of Croce or of his philosophy.
| 1921 Hannay & Collingwood tr. Ruggiero's Mod. Philos. 357 This is the new conception of reality that emerges from the very heart of the Crocian philosophy. 1925 Glasgow Herald 16 Apr. 4 The French ‘Symboliste’ poets also are open to attack along Crocean lines. M. Paul Valéry..is not a Crocean. 1926 Ibid. 2 Apr. 5 The Crocean doctrine that art is expression and that all expression is art. 1958 Listener 10 July 61/1 A historian of the Crocean persuasion. |