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Cattaneo, Carlo. Ed(S): Lacaita, Carlo G.; Sabetti, Filippo - Civilization and Democracy: The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings - 9780802092052 - V9780802092052
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Civilization and Democracy: The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings

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Description for Civilization and Democracy: The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings hardcover. The selection of original pieces presented in this translation is preceded by an introduction by the editors, Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, which guides the reader through Cattaneo's thinking and puts it in a comparative context. Ultimately, however, it is the editors' goal to let this profound Italian thinker speak for himself. Editor(s): Lacaita, Carlo G.; Sabetti, Filippo. Translator(s): Gibbons, David. Series: Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBTB; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 610.

Nineteenth-century Italy is a vast, unexplored territory in the history of modern political thought and liberal democratic theory. Apart from Mazzini, Pareto, and Mosca, the authors of this period are little read, even though their central concerns – the riddle of human liberation, progress, and liberty – are as important today as ever. This volume presents a selection of the writings of Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869), one of the period's most important thinkers, as selected by an equally important personage of a subsequent time, the anti-Fascist intellectual Gaetano Salvemini.

Cattaneo had a profound sense of the historical contingencies underlying the quest both ... Read more

The selection of original pieces presented in this translation is preceded by an introduction by the editors, Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, which guides the reader through Cattaneo's thinking and puts it in a comparative context. Ultimately, however, it is the editors' goal to let this profound Italian thinker speak for himself.

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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802092052
SKU
V9780802092052
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About Cattaneo, Carlo. Ed(S): Lacaita, Carlo G.; Sabetti, Filippo
Carlo Cattaneo (1801-1869) was a philosopher and political economist. Carlo G. Lacaita, formerly Professor of Contemporary History in the Faculty of Political Science, University of Milan, is chairman of the scientific committee for the publication of the works of Carlo Cattaneo and the Association for the History of Science and Technology in the Age of Industrialization (ASSTI). ... Read more

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