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Beyond Right and Left - Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,940

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Beyond Right and Left - Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci (Hardcover, New): Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Beyond Right and Left - Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci (Hardcover, New)

Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Series: Italian Literature and Thought

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Two Italian writers, Gaetano Mosca and Antonio Gramsci, have been very influential in twentieth-century political thought, the first cast as a thoroughgoing conservative, the second as the model of a humanistic Marxist. The author of this provocative book -- the first systematic study of the connection between the two men -- maintains that they are closer to each other than is commonly supposed -- that they in fact belong to the same political tradition of democratic elitism.

Maurice A. Finocchiaro argues that Gramsci's political theory is a constructive critique of Mosca's and that the key common element is the attempt to combine democracy and elitism in a theoretical system that defines them not as opposite but as compatible and interdependent. Finocchiaro finds that a critical examination of the major works of the two men demonstrates their shared belief in the viability of democratic elitism and undermines the importance of the distinction between right and left.

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Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Italian Literature and Thought
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Authors:	Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	314
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-07535-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Promotions
LSN:	0-300-07535-9
Barcode:	9780300075359