The Intellectual Origins of the Italian Revolution: 1968 and its Genesis

‘68 in Italy, compared to the same movement in other European countries, is characterized by its long duration and its particular intensity. It is in fact a movement that has produced powerful and lasting effects on the Italian society for at least a decade, as it is visible in its central presence...

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Published inScienza e politica Vol. 30; no. 59
Main Author Michele Filippini
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Bologna 01.12.2018
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1968
Movimenti italiani
Nuova sinistra
Operaismo
Quaderni rossi
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Summary:‘68 in Italy, compared to the same movement in other European countries, is characterized by its long duration and its particular intensity. It is in fact a movement that has produced powerful and lasting effects on the Italian society for at least a decade, as it is visible in its central presence in the historical memory of the country, still today. But the outbreak of ‘68, like the social and legislative achievements of the 70s, owe their conditions of possibility to a break – a political break but above all a theoretical break – which occurred earlier, at the beginning of the 1960s. Going back to the genesis of the breakdown of the conservative imagery of the 1950s, while being an operation of intellectual history, can be useful to investigate how the “theoretical novelty” emerges, in this case through a break with its own tradition, albeit aiming to its reactivation.
ISSN:1590-4946
1825-9618
DOI:10.6092/issn.1825-9618/8903