Martin, James. 2008. Piero Gobetti and the Politics of Liberal Revolution. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230602748 [Book]

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Piero Gobetti was an astonishing figure. A radical liberal and fierce critic of Italian politics in the years after World War I, he was fascinated by the workers' struggles in his native Turin and by Gramsci's vision of a factory-based democracy. Gobetti proposed liberalism as an emancipatory theory grounded in social conflicts. "Revolutionary liberalism," as he called it, guided his opposition to Fascism and, following his untimely death at twenty-five, inspired key figures in the Italian Resistance. Accessible but critical, this volume is the first English-language study of Gobetti's political ideas and offers a balanced assessment of his enduring significance.

Item Type:	Book
Related URLs:	Review
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Politics Research Office > REF2014 Politics > Research Unit in Contemporary Political Theory (RUCPT)
Date:	December 2008
Item ID:	3412
Date Deposited:	13 Aug 2010 10:17
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2019 16:01
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/3412

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