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Luca Meldolesi
These exercises were suggested by the late Hirschman's self subversion phase of work that touched upon numerous aspects of his previous elaboration. Their ambition lies in helping the triggering of…
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" . . . there was a historical period in the central Mediterranean during which numerous peoples, villages, and towns, 'armed one against the other' undertook self-promoting initiatives, both native…
Coming from three Conferences on Albert Hirschman Legacy held in Boston, Washington-WB and Berlin and organized by A Colorni-Hirschman International Institute, Rome, Italy, the contributions, included in the present collection…
Hirschman is a recognised thinker in the fields of economic development and Latin American studies - he also encompasses social science. This book recounts 50 years of his work, exploring…
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Nicoletta Stame
The book aims at showing both the relevance of practical work for the advancement of social theory, and the need for a theoretical attitude - based on a capacity of…
Albert O. Hirschman
How Economics Should Be Complicated is an anthology of texts personally authorized by the Author and edited by Luca Meldolesi, that appeared in Italian in the series of the Great…
How Reforms Should be Passed is an anthology of texts chosen personally by Hirschman on the latter production line - as he was to call it informally - that is…
With an astonishing unity of inspiration that serves as a counterbalance to the richness and variety of his themes and positions, Albert O. Hirschman, great political economist of our time…
Eugenio Colorni
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Hybrid Genre. Edited by Luca Meldolesi and Nicoletta Stame. The name of Eugenio Colorni is quite familiar among the many intellectuals who knew Albert Hirschman…
Systems, love, philosophy, science, end-means, anthropomorphism, economy, action, success, separation: these are the main theoretical themes of that strange and extraordinary dialogue that developed between Eugenio Colorni and Altiero Spinelli…
Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Luca Meldolesi. Translated by Michael Gilmartin. He was ready to let himself be pervaded by an idea and to experience it by compassionately living it, so…
Literary Nonfiction. Italian Studies. Essay. Edited by Michael Gilmartin. The answer [Eugenio Colorni’s, to a question of Ursula Hirschman’s on the existence of ‘concentric circles’ in explanations of reality] is…
. . . the shift from Eugenio?s main student interest in science in favor of theoretical philosophy, on one hand, and his post-graduation "German period," on the other (along with…
Art, aesthetics, literary criticism, and political science are fields that are today scarcely recognized (though they were originally long pursued) among the truly extraordinary intellectual exploits of the great Italian…
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. Jewish Studies. Just as philosophy does not make progress by resolving eternal problems, but rather by rigorously meditating on particular facts, procedures and methods, and…
