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  • Reimagining Democracy

    On the Political Project of Adriano Olivetti

    by Davide Cadeddu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In the journal articles, historiographical essays, and numerous references to the political thought of Adriano Olivetti, the term constantly used to characterize his thinking is ‘utopia’. It is from this word, or rather, the misuse of this word, where one can begin to shed light on Olivettian political thinking. The term ‘utopia’, which has come to designate an entire vein of political literature, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Towards and Beyond the Italian Republic

    Adriano Olivetti’s Vision of Politics

    by Davide Cadeddu ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the historical process that led to the foundation of the Italian Republic and its constitution, viewed through the personal experiences and political reflections of Adriano Olivetti (between 1919 and 1960), general manager and president of the well-known typewriter manufacturer “Ing. C. Olivetti & C.” An unbroken line of reasoning linked his maturing political reflections during ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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    The First Totalitarian Dictator

    by Paul Corner ...
    Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ... Read more

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  • Mussolini's Intellectuals

    Fascist Social and Political Thought

    by A. James Gregor ...
    Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian ... Read more

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  • Left and Right

    The Significance of a Political Distinction

    by Norberto Bobbio ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the distinction between Left and Right can be forgotten.In this book - which was a tremendous success in Italy - Norberto Bobbio challenges these views, arguing that the fundamental political distinction between Left and Right, which has shaped the two ... Read more

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  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Antonio A. Santucci, Lelio La Porta, Eric Hobsbawm ...
    “What the future fortunes of [Gramsci’s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this.” —Eric Hobsbawm, from the prefaceAntonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world's greatest cultural critics. ... Read more

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  • Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today.Examining themes such as regional identities, political disunity, and the role of the national language, they also cover a wide range of authors and works ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola

    by Paul Furlong ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    Julius Evola’s writing covered a vast range of subjects, from a distinctive and categorical ideological outlook and has been extremely influential on a significant number of extreme right thinkers, activists and organisations. This book is the first full length study in English to present his political thought to a wider audience, beyond that of his followers and sympathisers, and to bring into ... Read more

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  • Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime

    by Francesca Billiani, Laura Pennacchietti ...
    Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly diverse aesthetic phenomena within the context of the creation of a Fascist State art, Billiani and Pennacchietti argue that an effort of construction, or reconstruction, was the main driving force ... Read more

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  • Storming Heaven

    Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

    by Steve Wright, Riccardo Bellofiore, Massimiliano Tomba ...
    Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, of of which are still practiced today by workers ... Read more

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  • Historicism and Fascism in Modern Italy

    by David D. Roberts ...
    During the early decades of the twentieth century, Italy produced distinctive innovations in both the intellectual and political realms. On the one hand, Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) and Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944) spearheaded a radical rethinking of historicism and philosophical idealism that significantly reoriented Italian culture. On the other hand, the period witnessed the first rumblings of ... Read more

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  • The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010

    by Robert Gordon ...
    The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many thousands ... Read more

    $26.99 USD