Tuesday 11 May 2010

The philosopher and politics


Norberto Bobbio was born in Turin (Italy) in 1909 and died in 2004. He was an important intellectual contemporary.
Bobbio studied law in Turin and later he lecture of Law Philosophy in University of Camerino, Siena and Padua.
Besides between 1942 and 1943 he was member of Italian Antifascist Resistance for joining “Giustizia e Libertà” movement he was arrest.
On the other hand he was senator for life and Doctor Honoris Causa in the Universities of Paris, Buenos Aires, Complutence of Madrid, Bologna and Chambery.
Bobbio set up the Socialist-liberal party in 1942 but his most important contribution was in ideological field being some:
• What socialism? (1976)
• State, government and society: a General Theory of Politics (1985)
• Right and Left (1994)
• Neither Marx nor against Marx
• General Theory of Law (1958 and 1960)
• And others
I like Bobbio because is a great political, philosophical and law thinker. Besides I like because he was an important political activist. Anyway I have two books of him that Bobbio don’t write but some editorials published. These are Liberalism and Democracy (2006) and The philosopher and politics.

2 comments:

  1. Bobbio? I remember when I talked about it when it comes to the fair economic culture and the
    Lerda´s classes and their mints.

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  2. Bobbio? we read some books about his thinking in "History of political thinking"...He is interesting.

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