On Liberal Revolution - Brossura

Gobetti, Piero

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ISBN 10: 0300081189 ISBN 13: 9780300081183

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

This book is the first English-language edition of a collection of writings by one of Italy’s most important radical liberals, Piero Gobetti (1901–1926). In thirty-five thought-provoking essays, Gobetti proposes an original and challenging notion of liberalism as a revolutionary theory of both the individual and social and political movements. His theory is of particular relevance in the wake of the collapse of Marxist socialism, as non-Western countries with nonliberal or antiliberal cultural and moral traditions confront the problems of transition toward democracy and liberalism. Gobetti’s ideas continue to influence in important ways today’s heated debates over the nature of liberalism.

Gobetti was the first Italian scholar to identify “two Italys”: one enlightened and modern though small and weak, the other premodern, traditional, and dominant. A witness to the seizure of power by the Fascists, Gobetti became convinced that Italy’s hostility to liberalism could be overcome only with a cultural revolution. Endorsing a radical liberalism, he nevertheless believed that the Communists, led by Antonio Gramsci, could play a crucial role in democratizing Italy by helping to develop a secular culture. For a liberal state to subsist and grow, Gobetti argued, there must first be a transformation of both the economic structure and the legal and moral culture of the society.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Nadia Urbinati is assistant professor in the department of political science at Columbia University. William McCuaig lives in Toronto. His previous translations include Liberal Socialism by Carlo Rosselli and Italian Foreign Policy by Federico Chabod.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300081189
• ISBN 13: 9780300081183
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 241
• Redattore: Urbinati Nadia
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile