Croce, Gramsci, Bobbio and the Italian Political Tradition

This book gathers together fifteen classic essays by leading scholar Richard Bellamy, tracing the history of Italian political thought from Beccaria to Bobbio. Written over the past 25 years, they constitute the first account in English of the modern Italian political tradition. The author pays special attention to the different ways Italian theorists have linked politics and ethics, and their various conceptions of the state and of democracy. The resulting variations on Machiavellian themes gave rise to distinctively Italian understandings of Liberalism, Marxism, Fascism and Socialism, which were all associated with a peculiarly realist account of democracy. Among the thinkers discussed are Cesare Beccaria, Antonio Genovesi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Benedetto Croce, Giovanni Gentile, Antonio Gramsci, Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca and Norberto Bobbio.

Author: Richard Bellamy
Publisher: ECPR Press
Published: 12/01/2013
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781907301995
ISBN10: 1907301992
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Conservatism & Liberalism
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Fascism & Totalitarianism

About the Author
Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science and Director of the European Institute, University College London. In 2012 he was awarded the British Academy's Serena Medal 'for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, literature, art or economics'. His Italian publications include Modern Italian Social Theory (Polity Press and Stanford, 1987) and (with Darrow Schecter) Gramsci and the Italian State (Manchester University Press, 1993) along with critical editions of Beccaria, Gramsci and Bobbio.