La storiografia si occupa sempre più intensamente degli anni Settanta e Ottanta, avvalendosi della categoria della "crisi" della società fordista e del compromesso socialdemocratico. In questo volume, frutto di un confronto teorico ed empirico tra storici e sociologi italiani e …
A dramatic transformation has begun in the way scholars think about human nature. Political scientists, psychologists, economists, and evolutionary biologists are beginning to reject the view that human affairs are shaped almost exclusively by self-interest--a view that came to …
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the…
"Je ne peux que suivre Emma Goldman quand elle déclare ne pas vouloir d'une révolution où elle ne pourrait pas danser. Mais au moins voulait-elle une révolution, sans laquelle de telles fins esthétiques et psychologiques ne bénéficieraient qu'à quelques-uns. Or les objectifs rév…
With this volume, Louis Dumont's decades-long research into modern ideology reaches a new level. Following his chronological study of the development of individualism, what Dumont calls "the individualist configuration" (see Essays on Individualism, and his book devoted especial…
"These essays take Baudelaire seriously as a thinker. Bernard Howells explores the problematics surrounding individualism and history in a number of prose texts, and situates Baudelaire within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century historical, cultural and artistic speculati…
