Politics without Intellectuals

Italy in the Last Three Decades
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-90282-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 131 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 311 g

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

The book is the first historical reconstruction of Italian political events over the last thirty years, that is, the period from the Tangentopoli crisis of the early 1990s to the present day. In particular, the book examines, for the first time in a systematic and documented way, the controversial relationship between parties and intellectuals, highlighting the distance, not to say the unbridgeable gap, created between politics and culture in Italy in the last three decades, the decades of the so-called Second Republic. In other words, it tries to explain why the close link between politics and culture that was the hallmark of twentieth-century politics has dissolved in Italy, and through what stages we have come to a substantial incommunicability between these two worlds in the last three decades.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caravale, Giorgio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Politics without intellectuals.- Chapter 2. Politics without history.- Chapter 3. Inside and outside the ivory tower.

Über Autor(innen)

Giorgio Caravale is a Professor of Early Modern History at the University Roma Tre, Rome, Italy. He is the author, among other volumes, of (Laterza, 2022), (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2024),  (with L. Benadusi) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), and  (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).