Massimo Pendenza
Biographic Data
| ID | 303891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Massimo Pendenza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Massimo |
| FAMILY NAME | Pendenza |
| SIGNATURE | PENDENZA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salerno |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8240-4794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Il ritorno dell’ordoliberalismo in Europa
A distinction must be made between the neoliberalism of the 1970s, an expression of the economic principles of the Vienna and Chicago Schools, and that of the Ordoliberals, economists and jurists of the Freiburg School, active since the 1930s in Germany, then of its postwar reconstruction and finally of the European economic model. Intertwined since the Lippmann Conference in 1938, the two currents, while agreeing on the establishment of a compet…
The new faces of Obscurantism in Western societies
Émile Durkheim
"For Durkheim, sociology was by no means a realm of knowledge closed in its specificity. It was rather an open science, permeable to contributions coming from other disciplines. For him, the task of sociology was to study what held societies together and to provide a place for reflective change and progressive development"
Stato di guerra e Stato di pace
The aim of the essay is twofold: first, to show that Durkheim’s engagement with the facts of war had a contingent end in propaganda and that his real objective was eminently scientific, coinciding with the outlawing of the State when it presents itself as ‘disconnected from the social body,’ and for this reason defined as ‘pathological,’ and the concomitant valorization of its opposite, that is, of a State theorized instead as ‘connected with its…
Presentazione
Presentazione
Questa sezione monografica propone quattro contributi che interpellano la prospettiva sociologica sui temi della guerra e della pace. Sullo sfondo è la tragica realtà – non più eludibile dopo l’aggressione dell’Ucraina da parte della Russia – della “fine della pace”. «Trent’anni fa scambiammo la fine della pace per la fine della guerra. Inversione di parole e cose: avendo bollato “guerra fredda” la lunga tregua europea, preferimmo trascurare che …
Vittorio Cotesta, The Heavens and the Earth. Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World
Come puntualizza l’incipit di The Heavens and the Earth, ciò che ha tra le mani il lettore è un «lavoro durato più di vent’anni» (p. xi), un volume lungo 637 pagine dedicato alla ricostruzione delle immagini del mondo e dell’umanità prodotte rispettivamente dalla civiltà greco-romana (prima parte), cinese antica (seconda parte) e islamica medievale (terza parte); anzi, per la precisione, ricavate dalla lettura dei «grandi intellettuali di quelle …
Young People in the Age of Crisis. Discovering Patterns of Change in Cosmopolitanism and Attitudes towards Europe/European Union among University Students in Southern Italy
Since 2008, the European crisis, in its many forms, has brought about an increase in inequality and has loosened the social bonds between EU citizens. It is the young who have been hit hardest by the consequences of the crisis, as much in the short term as in the long term. One would reasonably expect the European crisis to have affected young people’s sense of belonging to Europe and to the EU. We will deal with this issue from the perspective o…
Rethinking Self-Responsibility
In current societies, the freedom of the individual is at the center of mainstream public and political debate. For neoliberals, the individual is conceived as an unattached, self-responsible market player. However, this perspective has highly destructive consequences for societies. We contrast this conception of the individual with that of Durkheim, endorsing Durkheim's. Our thesis is that the neoliberal notion of the individual, freedom, societ…
Societal cosmopolitanism
To consider cosmopolitanism independently, purely as a value, neglects consideration of the way in which people live, how they create collective judgements and how they build their relations with others. Our study counterpoises this abstract idea of cosmopolitanism with the concept of societal cosmopolitanism, which is, in our view, more appropriate for grasping the empirical reality of relations. In this sense, we reject the idea of a generalize…
Intimations of methodological nationalism in classical sociology
Nowadays, the widespread view is that classical sociology is tainted with 'methodological nationalism and it would appear that there has been a significant overlap between social and political space. We disagree with this point of view for three reasons: (1) by dealing with the global world, classical sociology has already glimpsed the possibility of going beyond the nation-state as a unit of analysis; (2) having operated above all with the notio…
Cosmopolitan nuances in classical sociology
This article proposes to give voice to the argument that prospects a cosmopolitan vision of society by reading between the lines of classical sociological thought. This vision, neither manifest nor intentional, is, however, unequivocally present. In particular, the article analyses fragments of writings from Tönnies, Marx, Durkheim and Simmel, wherein each author's underlying approach to cosmopolitanism clearly emerges: liberal (Marx and Tönnies)…
Classical Sociology Beyond Methodological Nationalism
“Merging the National with the Human Ideal”
This chapter influences that the proposal of Durkheim is alternative to that of the radical semantics of the two extremes of and cosmopolitanism. It implicitly responds to critiques of Durkheim's lack of reflection on the nation and nationalism, or, worse, on his incapacity to analyze society beyond its borders, and in general, it responds to critics that consider classical sociology, or even sociology tout court , incapable of providing with a m…
Rethinking Self-Responsibility
In current societies, the freedom of the individual is at the center of mainstream public and political debate. For neoliberals, the individual is conceived as an unattached, self-responsible market player. However, this perspective has highly destructive consequences for societies. We contrast this conception of the individual with that of Durkheim, endorsing Durkheim's. Our thesis is that the neoliberal notion of the individual, freedom, societ…
Cosmopolitan nuances in classical sociology
This article proposes to give voice to the argument that prospects a cosmopolitan vision of society by reading between the lines of classical sociological thought. This vision, neither manifest nor intentional, is, however, unequivocally present. In particular, the article analyses fragments of writings from Tönnies, Marx, Durkheim and Simmel, wherein each author's underlying approach to cosmopolitanism clearly emerges: liberal (Marx and Tönnies)…
Young People in the Age of Crisis. Discovering Patterns of Change in Cosmopolitanism and Attitudes towards Europe/European Union among University Students in Southern Italy
Since 2008, the European crisis, in its many forms, has brought about an increase in inequality and has loosened the social bonds between EU citizens. It is the young who have been hit hardest by the consequences of the crisis, as much in the short term as in the long term. One would reasonably expect the European crisis to have affected young people’s sense of belonging to Europe and to the EU. We will deal with this issue from the perspective o…
Classical Sociology Beyond Methodological Nationalism
“Merging the National with the Human Ideal”
This chapter influences that the proposal of Durkheim is alternative to that of the radical semantics of the two extremes of and cosmopolitanism. It implicitly responds to critiques of Durkheim's lack of reflection on the nation and nationalism, or, worse, on his incapacity to analyze society beyond its borders, and in general, it responds to critics that consider classical sociology, or even sociology tout court , incapable of providing with a m…
Cosmopolitan nuances in classical sociology
This article proposes to give voice to the argument that prospects a cosmopolitan vision of society by reading between the lines of classical sociological thought. This vision, neither manifest nor intentional, is, however, unequivocally present. In particular, the article analyses fragments of writings from Tönnies, Marx, Durkheim and Simmel, wherein each author's underlying approach to cosmopolitanism clearly emerges: liberal (Marx and Tönnies)…
Intimations of methodological nationalism in classical sociology
Nowadays, the widespread view is that classical sociology is tainted with 'methodological nationalism and it would appear that there has been a significant overlap between social and political space. We disagree with this point of view for three reasons: (1) by dealing with the global world, classical sociology has already glimpsed the possibility of going beyond the nation-state as a unit of analysis; (2) having operated above all with the notio…
Societal cosmopolitanism
To consider cosmopolitanism independently, purely as a value, neglects consideration of the way in which people live, how they create collective judgements and how they build their relations with others. Our study counterpoises this abstract idea of cosmopolitanism with the concept of societal cosmopolitanism, which is, in our view, more appropriate for grasping the empirical reality of relations. In this sense, we reject the idea of a generalize…
Young People in the Age of Crisis. Discovering Patterns of Change in Cosmopolitanism and Attitudes towards Europe/European Union among University Students in Southern Italy
Since 2008, the European crisis, in its many forms, has brought about an increase in inequality and has loosened the social bonds between EU citizens. It is the young who have been hit hardest by the consequences of the crisis, as much in the short term as in the long term. One would reasonably expect the European crisis to have affected young people’s sense of belonging to Europe and to the EU. We will deal with this issue from the perspective o…
Rethinking Self-Responsibility
In current societies, the freedom of the individual is at the center of mainstream public and political debate. For neoliberals, the individual is conceived as an unattached, self-responsible market player. However, this perspective has highly destructive consequences for societies. We contrast this conception of the individual with that of Durkheim, endorsing Durkheim's. Our thesis is that the neoliberal notion of the individual, freedom, societ…
Émile Durkheim
"For Durkheim, sociology was by no means a realm of knowledge closed in its specificity. It was rather an open science, permeable to contributions coming from other disciplines. For him, the task of sociology was to study what held societies together and to provide a place for reflective change and progressive development"
Stato di guerra e Stato di pace
The aim of the essay is twofold: first, to show that Durkheim’s engagement with the facts of war had a contingent end in propaganda and that his real objective was eminently scientific, coinciding with the outlawing of the State when it presents itself as ‘disconnected from the social body,’ and for this reason defined as ‘pathological,’ and the concomitant valorization of its opposite, that is, of a State theorized instead as ‘connected with its…
Presentazione
Presentazione
Questa sezione monografica propone quattro contributi che interpellano la prospettiva sociologica sui temi della guerra e della pace. Sullo sfondo è la tragica realtà – non più eludibile dopo l’aggressione dell’Ucraina da parte della Russia – della “fine della pace”. «Trent’anni fa scambiammo la fine della pace per la fine della guerra. Inversione di parole e cose: avendo bollato “guerra fredda” la lunga tregua europea, preferimmo trascurare che …
Vittorio Cotesta, The Heavens and the Earth. Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World
Come puntualizza l’incipit di The Heavens and the Earth, ciò che ha tra le mani il lettore è un «lavoro durato più di vent’anni» (p. xi), un volume lungo 637 pagine dedicato alla ricostruzione delle immagini del mondo e dell’umanità prodotte rispettivamente dalla civiltà greco-romana (prima parte), cinese antica (seconda parte) e islamica medievale (terza parte); anzi, per la precisione, ricavate dalla lettura dei «grandi intellettuali di quelle …
Il ritorno dell’ordoliberalismo in Europa
A distinction must be made between the neoliberalism of the 1970s, an expression of the economic principles of the Vienna and Chicago Schools, and that of the Ordoliberals, economists and jurists of the Freiburg School, active since the 1930s in Germany, then of its postwar reconstruction and finally of the European economic model. Intertwined since the Lippmann Conference in 1938, the two currents, while agreeing on the establishment of a compet…
The new faces of Obscurantism in Western societies
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social science (5 works) · Cosmopolitanism (4 works) · Sociology of knowledge (4 works) · Emile Durkheim and Sociology (3 works)