Research Catalog

Title

Piero Gobetti's Turin : modernity, myth, and memory / Niamh Cullen.

Author

Cullen, Niamh

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.

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Details

Description

x, 329 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In his brief public career, Piero Gobetti was one of the most outspoken and original voices of early Italian antifascism. Before his sudden death in 1926, he founded and edited three periodicals, including the fiercely antifascist La Rivoluzione Liberale and the literary journal Il Baretti. While much has been written about his antifascism and his theories of 'liberal revolution', this book considers him primarily as an 'organiser of culture' and situates him both in the context of his lived experience in Turin after the First World War and in a wider European panorama. Although politically marginal by 1918, Turin was one of Italy's most modern cities, with its futuristic Fiat factories, vocal working class and militant socialist intellectuals such as Antonio Gramsci. The book explores Gobetti's encounters with Turin - both its history and the modern, urban landscape of Gobetti's own day - as central to his thinking. Historically and geographically, Turin was also the Italian city closest to France and northern Europe. If Gobetti's immediate surroundings inspired much of his thinking, his sensibilities were - in true Piedmontese style - more European than Italian, and his ultimate impact far from only local. Finally, Gobetti's bitter disillusionment with liberal and fascist Italy, as well as his refusal to fit any of the conventional political labels, means that his memory has remained contentious right up to the present day. This groundbreaking new study explores the roots of Gobetti's thinking, his impact on Italian culture and his controversial legacy"--Back cover.

Series Statement

Italian modernities ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Italian modernities v. 12.

Subject

• Gobetti, Piero, 1901-1926 > Political and social views
• Gobetti, Piero, 1901-1926
• 1860-1999
• Intellectuals > Italy > Biography
• Journalists > Italy > Biography
• City and town life > Italy > Turin > History > 20th century
• Liberalism > Italy > History > 20th century
• Anti-fascist movements > Italy > History > 20th century
• Turin (Italy) > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Turin (Italy) > Politics and government > 1860-1945
• Italy > Politics and government > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The nation's guide and conscience : Turin and Italy, from Enlightenment to fascism -- The generation after 1918 : encounters with modernity in post-war Turin -- The intellectual community of La Rivoluzione Liberale -- Between politics and culture : Il Baretti and literary publishing in Turin, 1922-1928 -- Martyrs and myths of antifascism : the politics of remembrance in republican Italy -- Gobetti, Gobettiani, and antifascist Turin : echoes of history in Italy's more recent past.

ISBN

• 9783034302623
• 3034302622

LCCN

^^2011007647

OCLC

• 705568165
• SCSB-12590054

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library