Abstract

Croce's aesthetics is nothing but the ' philosophy of the "Concrete". Defining the cognition of the "Concrete" as intuition, Croce reduces history into it. Meanwhile, Croce's "Spirit" is determined as History in a quasi-Hegelian way. These two concepts of "history" deverse each other, namely one means a form of cognition, and the other an idealistic ontology, but even so a logical connection between them exists. This treatise first brings out a principle of interpretation from Croce's intuition/expression theory. Croce defines interpretation as re-evocation in his aesthetic theory, and this corresponds to his concept of "contemporary history" in the theory of history. Re-evocation is an intuitional act, therefore the intuition/expression scheme should be applied also in the theory of history. Through these explorations, the Spirit would be understood as a subject rigidly limited in the history, unified by aesthetic intuitional interpretation