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This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point
into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of
modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging
to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism,
Chistian Democracy - came to formulate multiple and often
antagonistic visions of Italy's road to the modern. By revisiting
Italian political history from the late nineteenth century until
the present with a focus on transition periods, Italian Modernities
explores how competing historical narratives influenced shifting
understandings of Italian nationhood, thus foregrounding the active
role of memory politics in the formulation of multiple modernities.
On the Edge of Democracy examines the emergence of democracy in
Italy in the wake of World War Two. It examines the nature of the
democracy forged in the liminal period after Benito Mussolini, the
Duce of Fascism, was removed from government in the summer of 1943.
Instead of pouring through institutional accounts, which root the
origins of democracy in the establishment of parties and in
electoral outcomes, Forlenza focuses on the lived experiences of
ordinary people and elites in extraordinary times. Meanings of
democracy are not variations of a universal model but emerge as
contingent interpretative acts and a symbolization following
political and existential crisis under condition of violence and
war. On the Edge of Democracy captures a series of key events which
saw people torn between going home or staying at the front, between
clinging to a disrespected but habitual monarchy or engaging with a
republican experiment. Becoming a democracy was also a kind of
politically spiritual act: the power of the myth of America and the
struggle for order as a function of the cosmic fight between
communism and ant-communism in the incipient Cold War had a
formative power on the origins, meanings, and characters of
post-fascist democracy in Italy.
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