Edizioni FrancoAngeli - Last issue of HISTORIA MAGISTRA (8/2012)

Editoriale. Dalla parte della storia

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Angelo d'Orsi

Dei Templari, della sindone ed altri falsi

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Pier Angelo Gramaglia
In the last decade, Catholic propaganda has pervaded the study of the shroud ("sindonologia" in Italian) and turned it into criticism of the shroud ("sindonofilia"). On the sidelines of a lively intellectual scientific debate about the authenticity of the Turin shroud, this essay challenges, with philological rigor (and with particular reference to Luca Nicolotti’s book, I Templari e la Sindone. Storia di un falso, Salerno Editrice, Roma 2011), these pseudo-historical inventions of the shroud critics, who unfortunately have been given extensive coverage both in the literature and by the press.

Marx, Gramsci e l'educazione filosofica alla politica

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Manuela Ausilio
After a decade we’re back to issue about the relationship between Marx and Gramsci with the volume Marx e Gramsci. Filologia, filosofia e politica allo specchio (2011), since when in 2001 had already been published Marx e Gramsci. Memoria e attualità. Today we can find an hypochondriac trend to what is impolitic and anti-systematic in approach to the two thinkers, typical of post-modern age; and this last standpoint seems now hegemonic even among many left-wing intelligentsia. So the philological purity and the ideal "truth" of "sacred texts" are being opposed to the interpretation of the text, necessarily partisan and political. So there’s a permanent expiation of the sins by the academic, measuring himself with concept starting from the "beauty" of his soul, so that he doesn’t accept the specific historical materialization of thought. However, just the philological rediscovery of Marx and Gramsci, two "experts + political activists", seems to force the "new" to surrender to the reasons of the "old". And maybe, we just lack of a philosophical education to politics.

La città come bene comune. Costruire il futuro partendo dalla storia

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Edoardo Salzano
This article explains how history is the teacher of life, by illustrating the context in which the right to the city emerged in Italy in the late 1960s, declined in the 1980s, when a new vision of society and new values triumphed, and attempts now to rise again through the claims of new urban movements as a mean to criticize, resist and replace the urban imaginary sustained by neoliberalism. It is argued that the myriad incidents that arise from below, expressing individual suffering, the deterioration of the physical environment, the danger to human health, the loss of services and communal spaces and the precarious status of employment can be transformed into a common action and embodied by the imaginary of the "city as a common good". This, in turn requires a planning process that forgoes the objectives and privileges of real estate interests, the growing economic value of indiscriminate urbanised development regardless of any real social priorities. Instead it has to embrace the welfare of present and future populations, in terms of health, access to resources, common goods, both natural and historical, regardless of social, cultural, or economic conditions.

Lo "spirito magiaro". Destre e nazionalismo in Ungheria

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Massimo Congiu
Fidesz and Jobbik are the most important Hungarian right wing parties. The first one leads actually a government which has such a majority in the Parliament that gives it the opportunity to rule the country without having to face an effective opposition. This situation allowed it to change the pre-existing Constitution with a conservative and nationalist Charter. The second one represents the most extreme aspirations of the Hungarian political right wing and its references are more proletarian and militant than the ones of the Fidesz. Jobbik has actually three eurodeputies and 47 deputies at the Hungarian Parliament. For a better comprehension of the Magyar nationalism it is very useful to consider such crucial moments of the contemporary history of the country as for instance the peace treaties that followed the end of the First World War and imposed to Hungary such severe territorial losses. The treaties have become the subject of a rhetoric which is based upon the historical injustice that Hungary suffered. This aspect is part of the Hungarian collective feeling and it is one of the main topics of the conservative circles and the radical right wing.

#UkRiots! Il web nei disordini inglesi dell'agosto 2011

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Infofreeflow Collettivo
The UkRiots - as the riots erupted in many areas of London and of other cities in the United Kingdom between 6th and 10th August 2011, following the death of Mark Duggan, were labelled in the global communication platforms - were an explosion of collective rage which came few months after another resounding warning, signalling an ever-expanding social discontent: the one expressed by the students autumn protests against increased university tuition fees, culminated in London on 25th November 2010, with the occupation of the Millbank Tower, the headquarters of the English tories. Two traits were shared by both revolts. Set in a frame of economic crisis, where even the most weak members of the middle class begin to be entangled in processes of impoverishment and proletarization, they represent a moment of opposition against the austerity measures enacted by the scheme of "Big Society" formulated by the Cameron cabinet. Nevertheless they find another linking point in the broad resort to digital technologies by all the parties involved. The purpose of this article is to probe the relation occurred between the UkRiots and the digital media platforms crossed, with different goals and objectives, by the different parties which clashed on either side of the barricade.

Niente di eccezionale. Ada Grossi racconta

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Giuseppe Aragno

Il "vero" cattolicesimo?

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Roberto Alciati

Schiuma della terra. La superfluità di richiedenti asilo e rifugiati. Il caso di Malta

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Giusy Mazzillo

Un precario contro il sistema. Ricordando Luciano Bianciardi

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Giuseppe Allegri, Alessandro Guerra
Forty years since Luciano Bianciardi’s death (Grosseto, 14 December 1922-Milan, 14 November 1971) it is time to stress his heretical and visionary profile. In the conformist panorama of Italian literature, Bianciardi represented an exception, not only by the stylistic point of view, but also by the political one. His partnership with Delio Cantimori highlights the contradictions and the complexity of XX century, his adventurous cultural journey leads directly to our life, to our life agra.

I risorgimenti disincantati. Da Visconti a Martone

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Renata Gravina
The feeling of Disenchantmentover anhistorical period as the Risorgimento is experienced and interpreted by the two directors Visconti and Martone in a different way. Martone in his Noi credevamo express a Rossellini legacy, everything in his way of working search the truth, whereas, Visconti in his Senso and Il Gattopardo products, practices one of his multiple way trough a radical realism, in the wake of the ‘aesthetics of the Risorgimento. With Noi credevamo, Martone expresses a tribute to the Republican Risorgimento that participates in the complaint of an age, seeking satisfaction. Visconti in his movies expresses instead an already disenchanted analysis, even if, it is surely only feigning indifference towards the Renaissance. So the result for a Risorgimento wiew, host Visconti as a self made director that uses one of the ways to express the ‘art, while Martone, is still on effort to understand the Risorgimento as a period itself. The disenchantment is, in any case, the feeling confirmed to the vision of both.

Giuda e le regole dell'economia / Quando il PCI aveva una politica estera

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Tommaso Martino, Aldo Agosti

Schede

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Produzione propria

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Stalin, Togliatti, il PCI. Quando gli storici fanno cattiva storia

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Lauro Grassi

L'epistolario privato e segreto di Antonio Banfi

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Fabio Minazzi

E non ne rimase nessuno. Gli enti culturali "inutili" da un governo all'altro

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Daniela Merendino

Ecclesia militans

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT

Gli autori

Fri, 15 Mar 2012 8:00:00 GMT