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By Rosario Forlenza, Bjørn Thomassen
“Italian Modernities, in name and content material, poses an immense problem to assumptions that not just bedevil scholarship on Italy but additionally play a devastating position in Italy’s therapy within the geopolitical area. through complicating what we suggest by way of “modern,” the authors lightly yet firmly dissatisfied the simple assumptions that experience substituted for notion and that experience perpetuated prejudices either inside and out of doors Italy’s borders. Grounded in meticulous historic and ethnological examine, Italian Modernities merits as extensive an viewers as its scholarship is deep.” (Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University)
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A few days later (June 2), Prime Minister Antonio Salandra urged Italians to dissolve ‘internal discords’ in ‘wonderful moral unity’ and find the strength to defeat the enemy and complete the mission of the Risorgimento. 40 With all the fractures—geographical, social, economic, cultural—concealed beneath an outpouring of patriotic enthusiasm, Italy set out to finish the unfinished revolution through a regenerative baptism of blood. The war would finish the job: that of making Italians. In the effervescent and inflamed climate of the interventionist demonstrations, the Risorgimental epic—its heroes, its identity symbols, its representation, its language at the intersection of religion and politics (sacred and profane)—remained a powerful reservoir and source of memories, feelings and motivations.
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Stanford University Press, 2006), 81–100: 95. The relationship between writing, reading, 22 R. FORLENZA AND B. THOMASSEN 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. speaking, and listening as different ‘techniques’ linked to knowledge and self-transformation became a main theme in Foucault’s last years, especially in his 1981–1982 Collège de France lectures; see in particular his crucial March 1982 lectures in Michel Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981–1982, ed.