Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism

From Florence to Jerusalem and New York
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-56422-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 4569 g

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

Fascism and the racial laws of 1938 dramatically changed the scientific research and the academic community. Guarnieri focuses on psychology, from its promising origins to the end of the WWII. Psychology was marginalized in Italy both by the neo-idealistic reaction against science, and fascism (unlike Nazism) with long- lasting consequences. Academics and young scholars were persecuted because they were antifascist or Jews and the story of Italian displaced scholars is still an embarrassing one. The book follows scholars who emigrated to the United States, such as psychologist Renata Calabresi, and to Palestine, such as Enzo Bonaventura. Guarnieri traces their journey and the help they received from antifascist and Zionist networks and by international organizations. Some succeeded, some did not, and very few went back.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guarnieri, Patrizia

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Psychologists 'in the true sense of the word'.

2.Neo-idealism and 'the Cinderella of the sciences'

3.Fascistization discrimination and persecution

4.The Zionist network and Enzo Bonaventura in Jerusalem

5.The antifascist network and Renata Calabresi in New York

Über Autor(innen)

Patrizia Guarnieri is Professor of Cultural and Social History in the S.A.G.A.S. Department at the University of Florence, Italy. She has been a lecturer in Overseas Studies of Stanford University, USA and taught courses approved by the Psychology Department and the History of Science Program. She is the author of numerous publications, including A Case of Child Murder: Law and Science in Nineteenth-Century Tuscany, which has been translated into English.