On Liberal Revolution

Gobetti was the first Italian scholar to identify "two Italys": one enlightened and modern though small and weak, the other premodern, traditional, and dominant. A witness to the seizure of power by the Fascists, Gobetti became convinced that Italy's hostility to liberalism could be overcome only with a cultural revolution. Endorsing a radical liberalism, he nevertheless believed that the Communists, led by Antonio Gramsci, could play, a crucial role in democratizing Italy by helping to develop a secular culture. For a liberal state to subsist and grow, Gobetti argued, there must first be a transformation of both the economic structure and the legal and moral culture of the society. Zusammenfassung A collection of writings by one of Italy's most important radical liberals, Piero Gobetti (1901-1926). In 35 thought-provoking essays, Gobetti proposes a challenging notion of liberalism as a revolutionary theory of both the individual and social and political movements.

Product details

• Authors: Piero Gobetti, Gobetti Piero
• Assisted by: Urbinati Nadia (Editor), McCuaig William (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2000
• EAN: 9780300081183
• ISBN: 978-0-300-08118-3
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Italian Literature and Thought
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Italy, Political science & theory, Italian, Political science and theory, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies