What does it mean to study the history of political thought today? The essays collected in this volume offer a wide-ranging and articulate response, charting the landscape of research currently underway within the community of historians of political thought in Italy. They constitute the proceedings of the national conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Thought (AISPP), held in Milan, at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in September 2024. The eight thematic sections span an arc that runs from methodological reflection on the concepts and vocabularies of the political, to questions of freedom and democracy; from the study of transformations in feminist thought to investigations into political order between the medieval and early modern periods; from the forms of secrecy and transparency in the exercise of power to the political cultures of the nation; and from political imagination in its tensions between utopia and dystopia to the great questions of war, international order, and the crisis of modernity. What emerges is a vital discipline, capable of holding together philological rigor and theoretical sensitivity, fidelity to texts and attention to contexts, analysis of the canon and openness toward figures and problems long neglected. A discipline that, precisely in the breadth of its interests, asserts its irreducible relevance for understanding the present.
Cosa significa studiare la storia del pensiero politico oggi? I saggi raccolti in questo volume offrono una risposta ampia e articolata, restituendo il panorama delle ricerche in corso nella comunità degli storici e delle storiche del pensiero politico in Italia. Essi costituiscono gli Atti del Convegno nazionale dell’Associazione italiana di storia del pensiero politico (AISPP), svoltosi a Milano, presso l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, nel settembre 2024. Le otto sezioni tematiche percorrono un arco che va dalla riflessione metodologica sui concetti e i lessici del politico alle questioni di libertà e democrazia, dallo studio delle trasformazioni del pensiero femminista alle indagini sull’ordine politico tra età medievale e modernità, dalle forme del segreto e della trasparenza nell’esercizio del potere alle culture politiche della nazione, fino all’immaginazione politica nelle sue tensioni tra utopia e distopia e ai grandi interrogativi sulla guerra, sull’ordine internazionale e sulla crisi della modernità. Ne emerge una disciplina vitale, capace di tenere insieme rigore filologico e sensibilità teorica, fedeltà ai testi e attenzione ai contesti, analisi del canone e apertura verso figure e problemi a lungo trascurati. Una disciplina che, proprio nell'ampiezza dei suoi interessi, rivendica la propria irriducibile rilevanza per comprendere il presente.
Castellin, L. G., Continisio, C. (eds.), Studiare la storia del pensiero politico, EDUCatt, Milano 2026: 620 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/340225]
Studiare la storia del pensiero politico
Castellin, Luca Gino
;Continisio, Chiara
2026
Abstract
What does it mean to study the history of political thought today? The essays collected in this volume offer a wide-ranging and articulate response, charting the landscape of research currently underway within the community of historians of political thought in Italy. They constitute the proceedings of the national conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Thought (AISPP), held in Milan, at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in September 2024. The eight thematic sections span an arc that runs from methodological reflection on the concepts and vocabularies of the political, to questions of freedom and democracy; from the study of transformations in feminist thought to investigations into political order between the medieval and early modern periods; from the forms of secrecy and transparency in the exercise of power to the political cultures of the nation; and from political imagination in its tensions between utopia and dystopia to the great questions of war, international order, and the crisis of modernity. What emerges is a vital discipline, capable of holding together philological rigor and theoretical sensitivity, fidelity to texts and attention to contexts, analysis of the canon and openness toward figures and problems long neglected. A discipline that, precisely in the breadth of its interests, asserts its irreducible relevance for understanding the present.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.



