Overview
- Sheds new light on critical aspects of Italian political philosophy
- Highlights certain “themes” that emerge in the texts examined
- Explores e.g. Dante and Machiavelli through the lens of current hot topics like vulnerability and equality
Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Law and Justice (SHLJ, volume 26)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Keywords
- Italian Political Thought
- Equality in Italian Political Philosophy
- Discrimination in Italian Legal Philosophy
- History of Italian Political Thought
- History of Italian Legal Philosophy
- Efficacy/Efficiency in Italian Political Thought
- Vulnerability in Italian Political/Legal Philosophy
- Italian Legal Philosophy
- Situated Vulnerabilities and Equality
- Equality and Institutions in Italy
About this book
The second theme that emerges through the respective chapters (each of which constitutes the text for a lesson in a course for Ph.D. students) is that of the relationship between “equality” and “vulnerability.” Here the idea is to elaborate a concept of “vulnerability” that is not underpinned by what we in Italy call an “anthropology,” that is, a fixed notion of human nature. Instead this concept should be comprehensible and graspable solely on the basis of the recognition of decisions and actions that are merely “efficacious,” that function “for what they are, and what they do.” This recognition doesn’t even need to be explicitly articulated by these authors with any specific, deliberately conscious awareness.
The goal is not to identify a precise tradition of thought, one which elaborates a given line of reflection, but rather to highlight certain “themes” that emerge in the texts examined, even as the authors write with and for their own specific,contingent set of motives, which differ from time to time and place to place. These authors include some who are widely known, such as Dante, Machiavelli, and Beccaria. At times they are figures who typify certain key historical episodes, such as the Risorgimento (Giuseppe Mazzini) or Fascism (Cesare Lombroso and Santi Romano), while others reflect certain aspects of a contemporary debate (Pasolini and the “Braibanti affair”).
The book is based on lectures given for a 2021 Ph.D. Course at the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Italian Studies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Equality and Vulnerability in the Context of Italian Political Philosophy
Book Subtitle: Italian Efficacy
Authors: Gianfrancesco Zanetti
Series Title: Studies in the History of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35553-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35552-3Published: 17 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35555-4Due: 17 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35553-0Published: 16 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2198-9842
Series E-ISSN: 2198-9850
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 135
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy