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Record Nr.

UNINA9910492137903321

Autore

Cadeddu Davide

Titolo

Towards and Beyond the Italian Republic : Adriano Olivetti’s Vision of Politics / / by Davide Cadeddu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030761394

3030761398

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages)

Collana

Italian and Italian American Studies, , 2635-294X

Disciplina

945.091

945.091092

Soggetti

Italy - History

History, Modern

World politics

History of Italy

Modern History

Political History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: A View of the Intellectual Biography -- Chapter 2: Gaetano Salvemini and the United States of America -- Chapter 3: Among Antifascists and Secret Services -- Chapter 4: Self-Government in Constitutional Projects -- Chapter 5: A New Political Movement? -- Chapter 6: The Misunderstood Legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the historical process that led to the foundation of the Italian Republic and its constitution, viewed through the personal experiences and political reflections of Adriano Olivetti (between 1919 and 1960), general manager and president of the well-known typewriter manufacturer “Ing. C. Olivetti & C.” An unbroken line of reasoning linked his maturing political reflections during the two post-war periods. The historical context of the 1950s did not prove to be very propitious, but the guidelines dispersed throughout the Italian cultural and political world from the movement that Olivetti founded were certainly seminal – generating a legacy of ideas that has only in



part been recognized. What makes this study distinctive is the original approach to reading the history of Italy through Adriano Olivetti’s eyes and thoughts, far from the more common Christian Democratic or Communist perspective of those years. It is simply another view of what the Italian Republic could be and was not. Davide Cadeddu is Associate Professor of History of Political Theory at the University of Milan, Italy. He is author of Reimagining Democracy: On the Political Project of Adriano Olivetti (Springer, 2012) and editor of several Olivetti’s books, such as L’ordine politico delle Comunità (Edizioni di Comunità, 2021) and Società Stato Comunità (Edizioni di Comunità, 2021).