Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832–1900 (Ideas in Context, Series Number 153) - Hardcover

Gallo, Fernanda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009494120 ISBN 13: 9781009494120

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Across Italy in the nineteenth century, a generation of intellectuals engaged with Hegel's philosophy while actively participating in Italian political life. Hegel and Italian Political Thought traces the reception and transformation of these ideas, exploring how Hegelian concepts were reworked into political practices by Italians who had participated in the 1848 revolution, who would lead the new Italian State after unification, and who would continue to play a central role in Italian politics until the end of the century. Fernanda Gallo investigates the particular features of Italian Hegelianism, demonstrating how intellectuals insisted on the historical and political dimension of Hegel's idealism. Set apart from the broader European reception, these thinkers presented a critical Hegelianism closer to practice than ideas, to history than metaphysics. This study challenges conventional hierarchies in the study of Italian political thought, exploring how the ideas of Hegel acquired newfound political power when brought into connection with their specific historical context.

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About the Author

Fernanda Gallo is an Associate Professor in History and Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. She specialises in Italy and the Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century, German Idealism, and historical conceptions of Europe. Previous publications include Dalla Patria allo Stato: Bertrando Spaventa, una biografia intellettuale (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009494120
• ISBN 13: 9781009494120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304