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Italian ModernitiesLiberal Modernity

Italian Modernities: Liberal Modernity [Liberalism is not an Italian invention, far from it. Such a claim to Italian primacy within political thought is possible to attribute to other ‘-isms’, as we shall indeed argue in our subsequent discussions of Catholic, Fascist, and Socialist modernities. Not only is modern liberal thought not Italian, in many ways, liberal ideology in twentieth-century Italy would find itself squeezed between the much more dominant collectivist models of socialism and Christian democracy. Modern Italy is, not without reason, often described as being defined by a notoriously weak Liberalism, and sometimes even by a distinctively Italian antiliberalism. Indeed, as well noted by Nick Carter, the post hoc dismissal of ‘Liberal Italy’ as nothing but a failure, a series of unfulfilled promises, is very much due to the antiliberal currents of thought that have dominated Italian historiography from Fascism onwards.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ModernitiesLiberal Modernity

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
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978-1-137-50155-4
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23 –55
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10.1057/978-1-137-49212-8_2
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[Liberalism is not an Italian invention, far from it. Such a claim to Italian primacy within political thought is possible to attribute to other ‘-isms’, as we shall indeed argue in our subsequent discussions of Catholic, Fascist, and Socialist modernities. Not only is modern liberal thought not Italian, in many ways, liberal ideology in twentieth-century Italy would find itself squeezed between the much more dominant collectivist models of socialism and Christian democracy. Modern Italy is, not without reason, often described as being defined by a notoriously weak Liberalism, and sometimes even by a distinctively Italian antiliberalism. Indeed, as well noted by Nick Carter, the post hoc dismissal of ‘Liberal Italy’ as nothing but a failure, a series of unfulfilled promises, is very much due to the antiliberal currents of thought that have dominated Italian historiography from Fascism onwards.]

Published: Oct 1, 2016

Keywords: Work Peasant; Modern Welfare State; Italian People; Liberal Historian; Italian History

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