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MARXISM AND HISTORIOGRAPHY IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
10 / 2022
9783030836078
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Sinopsis

Eminent Italian historian Giovanni Levi once notably remarked that 'no one is a Marxist anymore,' pointing to a paradox in Italian cultural history. While what is called 'Marxism' was supposedly hegemonic over Italian culture, andáespecially history writing, for decades in the postwar period, it thenáseems to have suddenly disappeared.ááThis study questions such a vision of a monolithic and hegemonic Marxism.áItástarts from the mostáeffective anecdote to all ideologising narratives-that is, research into the texts themselves. It sees the Marxist historiography of the post-1945 period as a 'history in the making,' in which references to Marxian theory were a fundamental factor driving historiographical innovation. This allows the book to bring to light a highlyáoriginaláexperience in the development of historiography,ábasedáon the long Italian tradition of reflection on historical knowledge.

PVP
146,06