Italian Intellectuals and International Politics, 1945-1992

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Italian intellectuals and international politics.- I. Liberal Democrat political culture.- 2. The "blood of others" Mao's China in the discourse of Liberal Democrat Intellectuals during the Fifties.- 3. Telling the truth: From socialist towards democratic antifascism and anti-totalitarianism in the 1950s.- 4. Il Mulino and the East-West ideological confrontation: From destalinization to 1968.- 5. Guido Carli: A liberal technician and the making of Europe.- II. Catholic political culture.- 6. Italian Catholic intellectuals and indigenous Latin Americans: Transnational networks and violence at the end of the Cold War.- 7. Catholic culture put to the test of D?tente: The case of Augusto Del Noce.- 8. The international politics of a Christian realist: Beniamino Andreatta and Europe.- III. Socialists and Communists.- 9. Antisemitism and the Arab-Israeli question: The Italian left in the first ten years of the Republic.- 10. An Italian communist in the Spain of the '60s: The worthless journey of Rossana Rossanda.- 11. The debate on post-colonial Africa on the pages of "Mondoperaio" The reflection of socialists on decolonization (1955-1987).- 12. Solidarity and Italian labor movement culture: CGIL intellectuals and revision of the CGIL's International relations (1980-1982).- 13. PCI intellectuals and the image of "Reagan's America".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030249409
• ISBN13: 9783030249403
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"