Rebel intellectuals: politics and culture in Antonio Gramsci and Piero Gobetti

Author(s)

Daniela Xavier Haj Mussi

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
• Defense date: 2015-09-29

Examining board members

Walquiria Gertrudes Domingues Leão Rego; Bernardo Ricupero; Luis Felipe Miguel; Maria Betânia Amoroso; Luigi Biondi

• Advisor: Walquiria Gertrudes Domingues Leão Rego

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the issue of politics and culture in the political thought of two Italian intellectuals, the socialist Antonio Gramsci and the liberal Piero Gobetti, in the first post World War period. It rebuilds the political and cultural environment where these two intellectuals were educated and acted politically, especially in the city of Turin, and the contours of the main controversies in which they were involved in the years before the rise of fascism. In particular, the dissertation seeks to identify, in their editorial and journalistic life, the rhythm of thought that highlights how each of them interpreted the development of politics and culture of the neoidealist and socialist movements in Italy, as well as how they reacted to the advance of popular struggles in Italy and internationally, especially after 1917. Thus, proposes possible ways of understanding the live and contradictory intellectual relationship between Gramsci and Gobetti, in which the differences often become complementarity and even self-recognition. Discusses the complex journey of these two rebel intellectuals, who both shared the rejection of the Italian intellectual tradition as well as its political accommodation, two key components of the fascist regime that would settle next (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/22843-4 - Politics and culture in Antonio Gramsci and Piero Gobetti: 1918-1926
• Grantee: Daniela Xavier Haj Mussi
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate