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Towards and beyond the Italian Republic : Adriano Olivetti's vision of politics / Davide Cadeddu.

9783030761394 (electronic bk.)
3030761398 (electronic bk.)
9783030761387
303076138X

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-76139-4 doi

DG555 .C33 2021

945.091092

This book examines the historical process that led to the foundation of the Italian Republic and its constitution, viewed through the personal experiences and political reflections of Adriano Olivetti (between 1919 and 1960), general manager and president of the well-known typewriter manufacturer Ing. C. Olivetti & C. An unbroken line of reasoning linked his maturing political reflections during the two post-war periods. The historical context of the 1950s did not prove to be very propitious, but the guidelines dispersed throughout the Italian cultural and political world from the movement that Olivetti founded were certainly seminal generating a legacy of ideas that has only in part been recognized. What makes this study distinctive is the original approach to reading the history of Italy through Adriano Olivettis eyes and thoughts, far from the more common Christian Democratic or Communist perspective of those years. It is simply another view of what the Italian Republic could be and was not. Davide Cadeddu is Associate Professor of History of Political Theory at the University of Milan, Italy. He is author of Reimagining Democracy: On the Political Project of Adriano Olivetti (Springer, 2012) and editor of several Olivettis books, such as Lordine politico delle Comunita (Edizioni di Comunita, 2021) and Societa Stato Comunita (Edizioni di Comunita, 2021).

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Italian and Italian American studies.

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