Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Maurizio Isabella
    Nationality before liberty? Risorgimento political thought in transnational context
    in Journal of Modern Italian Studies , Vol. 17, n°5 ,  2012 ,  507-515
    The introduction to this special issue reviews the historiography on the political thought of the Risorgimento from De Ruggiero's famous History of European Liberalism (1925) to the most recent publications. It draws attention to the endurance of the post-war Gramscian paradigm that continues to underline the backwardness and traditional features of Risorgimento liberalism and political culture despite the challenges posed to that interpretation by more recent research. The aim of the essays included in the issue is to place new emphasis on the connections, parallels and engagements that existed between the Italian and European political thought of the period, rather than on the exceptionalism of Risorgimento political thought, while suggesting that the tension between liberty and nationality constituted a distinctive features of Italian post-revolutionary political culture.
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