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Civilization and Self-Government is the first systematic attempt to explicitly articulate the key elements of Carlo Cattaneo's pioneering attempt to advance freedom and self-government in nineteenth-century Europe. His public science combined two elements that constitute the two parts of this book: the study of incivilimento, and the art and science of self-governance. Cattaneo argued that people have to learn the arts of incivilimento before they can practice self-governance.Cattaneo's ideas recast, enrich, and broaden knowledge of the history of European thought beyond that generally available in English and French.
About the author
Dario Castiglione is Reader in Political Theory at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include (as co-editor) The History of Political Thought in National Context (CUP, 2001), Making European Citizens (Palgrave, 2006), The Culture of Toleration in Diverse Societies: Reasonable Tolerance, (Manchester University Press, 2003), The Language Question in Europe and Diverse Societies (Hart Publishers, 2007), The Oxford Handbook on Social Capital (OUP, 2008); and the forthcoming Giving Presence: The New Politics of Democratic Representation (Chicago University Press); (as co-author) Constitutional Politics in the EU: The Convention Moment and its Aftermath (Palgrave, 2007).
