Norberto Bobbio: A Life for Democracy on the Battlefield of Ideologies

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David Ragazzoni (Columbia University, USA) Aurelian Craiutu (Indiana University, USA)

Norberto Bobbio

A Life for Democracy on the Battlefield of Ideologies

David Ragazzoni (Columbia University, USA), Aurelian Craiutu (Indiana University, USA)

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Social & political philosophy; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Political structures: democracy

This book explores the writings of Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) who was Italy’s foremost political, legal, and democratic theorist, a distinguished historian of political and legal ideas, and one of the country’s most perceptive public intellectuals throughout the second half of the twentieth century in Europe.

Bobbio’s work offers a unique vantage point for understanding the evolution of twentieth-century ideologies, in Italy as well as in Europe. His biography, scholarship, and militant writings were marked significantly by the vicissitudes of Italian political history, as the country transitioned from constitutional monarchy to Fascist dictatorship to democratic, parliamentary Republic. These events, together with the international challenges posed by the Cold War, made his life and publications an unusually wide-ranging mirror into the complexities of European history and politics. His native country, in fact, provided him with a magnifying glass to scrutinize the respective principles and contaminations of rival ideological traditions in a national and transnational key. The chapters in this volume, written by scholars based in Europe and North America, combine historical contextualization with historical analysis to illuminate the complex ways in which Bobbio studied rival ideologies, examined the relationship between their past and present, and assessed their potential to forge the trajectory of democracy in the future.

This book is an insightful resource for advanced students, researchers and scholars of Politics, History and Philosophy, as well as those interested in Italian and European Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Political Ideologies.

Edited by: David Ragazzoni (Columbia University USA), Aurelian Craiutu (Indiana University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032502076
ISBN 10: 103250207X
Pages: 116
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

David Ragazzoni is Lecturer in Political Science at Columbia University, New York. His research interests sit at the crossroads of democratic theory (historical and contemporary) and the history of political and legal ideas. His articles have been published in Ethics and International Affairs, Constellations. International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Journal of Political Ideologies and Journal of Modern Italian Studies. His volume Hans Kelsen on Constitutional Democracy: Genesis, Theory, Legacies (coedited with Sandrine Baume) is forthcoming. Aurelian Craiutu is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author and editor of several books on modern political thought, among them, Faces of Moderation (2017) and Why Not Moderation? Letters to Young Radicals (2023).