Maurizio Viroli (New Jersey Princeton University)

Prophetic Times

Visions of Emancipation in the History of Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout history, prophetic voices have bolstered the struggle for social and political emancipation. Such voices have given meaning to suffering, spoken with pathos and anger to touch passions, and set into motion the moral imagination guiding efforts toward redemption. This book provides the visions of social emancipation we need.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 144mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781009233187
• ISBN-10: 1009233181
• Artikelnr.: 64295665

Autorenporträt

Maurizio Viroli is Professor of Politics at Princeton University (Emeritus) and Professor of Government at University of Texas, Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. From Dante to the Republic of Prophets: 1. Prophets and poets
2. Savonarola's republican prophecy
3. Prophetic Machiavelli
4. The republic of the prophets (1527-1530)
Part II. The Decline of Prophecy and Italy's Bondage: 5. The domination over consciences
6. Prophets of self-denial
7. Prophecy, reason of state and utopia
8. Reverberations of bygone prophetic times
9. Prophets are impostors or fools
10. The revolution of the philosophers and the counterrevolution of the prophets
Part III. The Prophetic Voices of the Risorgimento and the Antifascist Resistance: 11. The times of prophets
12. Prophetic poets
13. Giuseppe Mazzini and his prophetic legacy
14. The autumn of the Risorgimento and the birth of the Republic.