Volterra, Fascism, and France

Bibliographic Data

ID14670929
AuthorsAnnalisa Capristo (Centro Studi GISED, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume28
Issue4
Pages637-674
Publication date2015-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience in Context (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0269-8897 • E-ISSN: 1474-0664
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0269889715000265
PMID26554645
OpenAlexW2418457539
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited23

Argument My contribution focuses on two aspects strictly related each other. On one hand, the progressive marginalization of Volterra from Italian scientific and political life after the rise of Fascism – because of his public anti-Fascist stance, both as a senator and as a professor – until his definitive exclusion on racial grounds in 1938. On the other hand, the reactions of his French colleagues and friends to this ostracism, and the support he received from them. As it emerges from several sources (Volterra's correspondence, institutional documentation, conference proceedings, etc.), it was mainly thanks to their support that he was able to escape the complete isolation and the “civil death” to which the regime condemned many of its adversaries

Documentation · Ostracism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · Law

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