Ideological profile of twentieth-century Italy / Norberto Bobbio ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.

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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE SERIES BY CHARLES S. MAIER -- FOREWORD BY MASSIMO L. SALVADORI -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- PREFACE -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- Chapter One. POSITIVISM AND MARXISM -- Chapter Two. CATHOLICS AND THE MODERN WORLD -- Chapter Three. THE FORCES OF THE IRRATIONAL -- Chapter Four. THE ANTIDEMOCRATS -- Chapter Five. THE TWO SOCIALISMS -- Chapter Six. BENEDETTO CROCE -- Chapter Seven. THE LESSON OF FACTS -- Chapter Eight. WORLD WAR I: AN INTERLUDE -- Chapter Nine. BETWEEN REVOLUTION AND REACTION -- Chapter Ten. THE IDEOLOGY OF FASCISM -- Chapter Eleven. CROCE IN OPPOSITION -- Chapter Twelve. THE IDEALS OF THE RESISTANCE -- Chapter Thirteen. THE YEARS OF COMMITMENT -- Chapter Fourteen. DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL -- Chapter Fifteen. TOWARD A NEW REPUBLIC? -- EXPLANATORY NOTES BY BRUNO BONGIOVANNI -- BIBLIOGRAPHY PREPARED BY BRUNO BONGIOVANNI -- INDEX

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.

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