Sensibilities of the Risorgimento

Reason and Passions in Political Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35916-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Political Thought

A purely political framework does not capture the complexity of the culture behind Italians’ struggle for liberty and independence during the Risorgimento (1815-1861). Roberto Romani identifies the sensibilities associated with each of the two main political programmes, Mazzini’s republicanism and moderatism, which in fact were comprehensive projects for a political, moral, and religious resurgence. The moderates’ espousal of reason entailed an ideal personality expressed by private virtue, self-possession, and a public morality informed by Catholicism, while Mazzini’s advocacy of passions led to ‘enthusiasm’ and a total commitment to the cause. Romani demonstrates that the patriots’ moral quest rested on a thick cultural bedrock, dating back to Stoicism and the Catholic Aufklärung, and passing through Rousseau and the Revolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Romani, Roberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Map

Introduction

1 Against the Passions of Revolution: Making the Moderate Sensibility, 1815–1848

2 Grand Vision, Minor Demands: The Themes and Sources of 1840s Moderatism

3 The Truths of the Heart: Passions, Sentiments, and Faith from Mazzini to Nievo

4 The Reason of the Elites: Constitutional Moderatism in the Kingdom of Sardinia, 1849–1861

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roberto Romani, Ph.D. (1990), is an Associate Professor in the History of Economic Thought at the University of Teramo (Italy). He was a Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King’s College, Cambridge, in 1995-8, and a Member of the School of History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 2014. His publications include National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France, 1750-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2002).