Political Enemies in Republican Italy
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-57058-0 (ISBN)
Political factionalism and ideological polarization have run high in Italian history. They must be taken into account in any attempt to explain the frailty of Italian public institutions – their instability, inefficiency, feeble legitimacy, inability to win citizens’ respect, and subservience to sectional interests. Moreover, Italian politics since the Risorgimento can be interpreted as a 150 year-long attempt to prevent factionalism and polarization from spinning out of control and becoming disruptive for the country. This book deals with the historical question of political factionalism and ideological polarization in post-1945 Italy from the point of view of delegitimation. In our definition, delegitimation occurs when one political subject denies another in principle the right to exist, and in more concrete terms that of governing the country, by arguing that it is incompatible with one or more of the values on which the public sphere is founded. The essays in this book chart the story of political delegitimation in post-1945 Italy as it occurred in different political parties, exploited different discursive arguments, was instrumental to different political projects, and was met with counter-arguments aimed at defusing it, or even at trying to counter-delegitimize the delegitimizers. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies.
Marco Gervasoni is full professor of Contemporary History, Università degli Studi del Molise and Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is a history of the extreme right in France. Giovanni Orsina is full professor of Contemporary History, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. His latest book is Berlusconism and Italy. A Historical Interpretation (2014).
Introduction: Political delegitimation in republican Italy, 1945–2011 Marco Gervasoni and Giovanni Orsina 1. Antifascism, anticommunism, antipolitics: delegitimation in Berlusconi’s Italy Giovanni Orsina 2. The misadventures of socialist anticommunism from the end of the war to the collapse of the Berlin Wall Marco Gervasoni 3. Delegitimation and anticommunism in Italian neofascism Giuseppe Parlato 4. From enemy to opponent: the politics of delegitimation in the Italian Christian Democratic Party (1945–1992) Simona Colarizi and Guido Panvini 5. Delegitimation provided by the constitutional pact in the First Republic Roberto Chiarini 6. From political enemy to profane reality: the ‘friend–enemy’ relation in the political ideology of Italian communists Andrea Guiso
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.10.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-57058-3 / 1138570583 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-57058-0 / 9781138570580 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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