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Anyone interested in the entire sweep of political thought over the last hundred years will find in Norberto Bobbio's Ideological Profile of Twentieth-Century Italy a masterful, thought-provoking guide. Home to the largest communist party in a democratic society, Italy has been a unique place politically, one where Christian democrats, liberals, fascists, socialists, communists, and others have co-existed in sizable numbers. In this book, Bobbio, who himself played an outstanding role in the development of Italian civic culture, follows each of the major ideologies, explaining how they developed, describing the key actors, and considering the legacies they left to political culture. He wrote Ideological Profile in 1968 to explain from a personal perspective the history behind that decade's tumultuous politics. Bobbio's defense of democracy and critique of capitalism are among the themes that will particularly interest American readers of this updated edition, the first to appear in English.Beginning in the late nineteenth century with positivism and Marxism, Bobbio next presents the ideological currents that developed before the outbreak of the First World War: Catholic, socialist, irrational and anti-democratic thought, the reaction against positivism, and the thinking of Benedetto Croce. After discussing the impact of the war, the author turns to the revolutionary-reactionary polarization of the postwar period and the ideology of fascism. The final chapters consider Croce's opposition to fascism and the ideals of the resistance and conclude with the post-Second World War "Years of Involvement."Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Political science --- History --- Italy --- Politics and government --- 20th century --- Political science - Italy - History - 20th century. --- Italy - Politics and government - 20th century.

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An important new interpretation of Machiavelli's political thinking, appearing in English for the first time. Constituting Freedom focuses on the question at the heart of Machiavelli's thinking, that is 'in what mode a free state, if there is one, can be maintained in corrupt cities; or, if there is not, in what mode to order it?' The book analyses the different solutions thought up by Machiavelli, starting from the hypothesis of the 'civil principality', the definition of the republican ' civil and free way of life' and the examination of the history of the Florentine institutions, to two short writings during the years 1520-1522, the Discursus florentinarum rerum and the Minuta di provisione per la riforma dello Stato di Firenze, in which Machiavelli explored publicly, for the first time, his projects to bring back the republican freedom in Florence after the fall of the first Republic of the City and the Medici's return. The book's main argument is that Machiavelli was always a committed republican, even when he worked for the Medici, and even though he believed that the city's constitution needed to change after the fall of Soderini. In the Discursus and in the Minuta Machiavelli proposed a constitution in which the 'humours' were forced to mix themselves with one another so as to be obliged to generate a new form of 'equality', which according to Machiavelli is the main characteristic of a free, just, and stable republic. The aim was not to obtain equilibrium among parts of the city leaving them unaltered, but to mix them. Only in this way could Florence return to being free.

Political science --- History --- Machiavelli, Niccolò, --- Florence (Italy) --- Politics and government --- Liberty --- Political science - Italy - History - 16th century --- Machiavelli, Niccolò, - 1469-1527 --- Florence (Italy) - Politics and government - 1421-1737

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Machiavelli and Mystery of State, first published in 1989, studies the intersection of sacred and secular conceptions of kingship in the Renaissance by documenting in detail six instances of the attempt to connect Machiavelli's thought to an ancient and secret tradition of political counsel, the arcana imperii or mysteries of state. This book illuminates an important and neglected dimension of Machiavelli's powerful influence on Renaissance political discourse.

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Herbert Spencer est l’une des figures les plus énigmatiques de l’histoire intellectuelle contemporaine. Très populaire durant la seconde moitié du xixe siècle, ses théories sont discréditées à la fin de sa vie. On ne peut néanmoins ignorer le rôle majeur qu’elles ont joué dans l’élaboration des doctrines sociales et politiques de ses nombreux lecteurs. En France et en Italie, l’influence de la pensée de Spencer a été particulièrement forte. Dans ces deux pays, le modèle évolutionniste spencérien connaît une diffusion importante, mais subit une transformation inattendue. Il sert d’appui à des positions opposées à l’individualisme libéral de son auteur : le solidarisme français et le socialisme marxiste italien. Notre étude comparée retrace ce processus d’appropriation des idées et cherche à en expliquer les raisons profondes. À travers l’analyse des écrits de penseurs comme Émile Durkheim et Enrico Ferri, nous mettons en lumière l’importance du contexte intellectuel propre aux milieux français et italiens de même que le poids des convictions personnelles des différents acteurs. Notre ouvrage permet en définitive de saisir l’influence du système évolutionniste de Spencer sur la pensée sociale et politique de la France et de l’Italie à la fin du xixe siècle.

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