Historiography Against Tyranny: The Acheivement of Guglielmo Ferrero

Abstract

Guglielmo Ferrero (1871–1942), Italian historian, culture critic, and novelist, dedicated his life to the diagnosis of two modern phenomena: the new civilization of "quantity," which acknowledged no limits to the scope of human desires, and the new tyranny, "totalitarianism," which acknowledged no limits to the scope of the tyrant's ambitions.