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The History of Italian Marxism
In The History of Italian Marxism, Paolo Favilli offers an articulated analysis of the different levels at which Marx's ideas - and 'Marxism' as a doctrinal 'system' - were received in Italy from the time of the First International up till the eve of the First World War. Rejecting any linear understanding of the relation between Marx's texts and the assumption of Marxism as the ideology of the burgeoning workers' movement, Favilli explores the growth of different forms of Marxist culture through the period of the Paris Commune, the late-nineteenth-century debate on 'revisionism', and the rise of revolutionary syndicalism. Asking in each case whether 'Marxism' meant a science, an ideology, a way of doing politics, a utopia, a myth or a religion, Favilli goes on to assess which of these 'Marxisms' died with, and which have survived, the 'crisis' at the end of the twentieth century. With a new preface to the English edition. First published in Italian as Storia del marxismo italiano: dalle origini alla grande guerra, FrancoAngeli s.r.l. Milan, 1996.
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Leadership, carisma e personalizzazione della politica nelle sinistre europee in età contemporanea
La leadership, il carisma e la personalizzazione della politica sono stati a lungo considerati un tabù a sinistra per la loro apparente incompatibilità con la dimensione di classe e i principi di uguaglianza tipici, invece, della tradizione progressista e/o rivoluzionaria. Come spiegare allora la comparsa e l’affermarsi di grandi individualità alla guida di movimenti e partiti del movimento operaio europeo dal XIX secolo fino ai giorni nostri? Partendo da un approccio storiografico, i saggi raccolti nel volume tentano di rispondere a questo interrogativo e alla sua dimensione multidisciplinare analizzando alcune delle diverse tipologie e modalità di leadership all’interno di organizzazioni anarchiche, comuniste, socialiste e indipendentiste in Europa, considerando le evoluzioni teoriche e i mutamenti ideologici che ne hanno caratterizzato la storia e concentrandosi sull’affermazione di singole personalità carismatiche trovatesi in alcuni casi a interpretare il ruolo di leader anche al di là delle loro stesse intenzioni.
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The Franciscan custody of the holy land in Cyprus
In his latest book Dr. Pieraccini makes a major contribution not only to the annals of the Franciscan Order but also to the history of Cyprus, a Greek-speaking island off the coast of Turkey that had long provided port facilities for trade with the East and that was an important staging post on the sea route for pilgrims to the Holy Land. After the waning of the Crusades at the end of the 13th century it became “the most important Christian outpost in the Mediterranean”. Even so, Catholics – whether Latins or Maronites – never made up more than 1% of the overall population of the island. In essence this is a tale of survival against the odds over the centuries, thanks to the stubborn resilience of the Franciscan friars and the Catholic faithful, especially the Maronites, in the face of great human and natural adversity. Among the perennial challenges the Order faced were those of a shortage of water, barren soil, “bad air” – malaria – a poor climate, and the hostility of the majority population of Greeks and Muslims.
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Restructuring the European State
Since 1950, devolution reforms have been widespread across Western Europe, leading to constitutional transformation in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as the potential for state breakup, as witnessed by independence referendums in Scotland and Catalonia. Over the same period, European integration has transferred power upwards to what is now the European Union. The simultaneous occurrence of these seemingly contradictory trends raises fundamental questions. Is state restructuring a uniform process? Has it been fuelled by European integration and, if so, how? Restructuring the European State uses a comparative analysis to present a systematic investigation of the connections between European integration and state restructuring. Paolo Dardanelli argues that there are two distinct dynamics of state restructuring: “bottom up,” where one or more regions demand self-government; and “top down,” where the central government decides to devolve power. Through quantitative analyses of thirteen key phases of state restructuring in Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom he shows that European integration has a powerful influence only in bottom up cases. Dardanelli points to a striking paradox of integration, whereby an ethos of Europe growing ever closer to union has become associated with fragmentation, divergence, and increased complexity, rather than a seamless system of multilevel governance. Innovative and rigorously researched, Restructuring the European State marks a major advance in our understanding of contemporary European politics.
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La Manna dell'Anima, etc. [Edited by F. Sorgenti.]
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Dialoghi sacri sopra la divina scrittura. Tomo primo -trentesimo]
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