Intellectuals, journals, and the legitimisation of political power
The case of the Italian intellectual group of Il Mulino (1950s and 1960s)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18944010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marzia Maccaferri (0000-0001-9970-2309, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-197 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Italy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-2944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9877 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/mit.2016.6 |
| OpenAlex | W2373402028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article explores the intellectual discourse of Il Mulino ’s intellectual group in relation to the transformation of Italian politics during the period leading up to the centre-left governments. First, it investigates Il Mulino ’s cultural project of overcoming the hegemony of idealism by endorsing the empiricist approach favoured by Anglo-American social sciences, while establishing a new role for intellectuals. Then, it focuses on the group’s political agenda aimed at rationalising Italy’s ‘imperfect two-party system’. We argue that, within the Italian intellectual-political scenario, Il Mulino ’s intellectual discourse sought to establish a new relationship between culture and politics. It tried to do so both by anchoring Italian political culture to the liberal- and social-democratic European tradition and by contributing to the stabilisation of Italian democracy, while proposing a reduction in the number of political parties
Democracy · Hegemony · Political culture · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Literature, Politics, and Exile Studies
| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |