«Tutto il mondo è paese» (Ps, VI). Riflessi risorgimentali nei Promessi sposi

La detection della critica - Studi e ricerche ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Valerio Vianello

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In the Promessi sposi Manzoni addresses the Risorgimento problem allusively by portraying situations and feelings attributable to Austrian oppression. Describing the evils of Spanish domination, he presents the reader with the requirements for a modern state. In the novel, the protagonists, not realising these expectations in their native country, seek them elsewhere.

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Ruin and Reality

The Virtues of Economy ◽

10.7591/cornell/9781501742378.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 13-40

Author(s):

James A. Palmer

Keyword(s):

Fourteenth Century ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Modern State ◽

The Novel ◽

Ruling Elite ◽

Political Values ◽

Late Medieval ◽

Late Medieval Period ◽

Papal States ◽

The City

This chapter discusses the structures and developments that paved the way for the transformation of the city of Rome in the late medieval period. It examines the Roman commune's political history, a history culminating in the mid-fourteenth-century revolution of Cola di Rienzo. In the wake of that event, Roman social and political values emerge with particular clarity, providing a glimpse of the cultural context within which the novel strategies of the late fourteenth-century ruling group emerged. Analysis of it elucidates the crossroads at which Roman politics had arrived by the late 1350s, clarifying the precise nature of the first of the two major challenges facing the city's ruling elite: the crisis of legitimacy. The chapter then considers the nature of humanist ideas about Rome and their enduring influence on subsequent studies of Rome, the Renaissance, and the rise of the modern state, the latter being a field in which the Papal States now figure prominently.

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Orwell's Animal Farm: Ideological State Apparatuses and the Crisis of the Modern State

Journal of English Language and Literature ◽

10.17722/jell.v9i2.356 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 815-822

Author(s):

Munir Ahmed Al-Aghberi

Keyword(s):

Business Groups ◽

Modern World ◽

Modern State ◽

The Novel ◽

Democratic State ◽

The Media ◽

Animal Farm ◽

The Masses ◽

The Way

The present paper explores the crisis of the modern democratic state based on Althusser’s concept of the Ideological State Apparatuses and Chomsky’s investigation into the suspicious role of the media. Orwell’s novel Animal Farm was examined by way of casting the light on the junctures of intersection between history and culture. Re-reading the novel through the perspective of Althusser's ISA and Chomsky’s experienced lens help understand the way of the modern world where the various media means drive the masses into the end determined by the ruling business groups.

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The Strange Case of Billy Biswas: Two conflicting realities

Journal on English as a Foreign Language ◽

10.23971/jefl.v7i2.685 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 159

Author(s):

Bikki Anupama ◽

Mantri Venkata Raghu Ram

Keyword(s):

Colonial Period ◽

The Other ◽

Cultural Conflict ◽

Modern State ◽

The Novel ◽

Social Constructs ◽

Objective Reality ◽

Cultural Conflicts ◽

State Apparatus ◽

Tribal Societies

<p>Arun Joshi presents socio-cultural conflicts between two different societies. One society is material driven and backed by the modern state apparatus like police, courts, etc. while the other is subsistence driven and is at the bottom in the hierarchy of the modern state. Indian tribal societies have been exploited right from the colonial period into the post-independence times. These two societies differ as follows: the tribal society lives on subsistence looks at Nature as a space for socio-economic, political, cultural and community, while the urban materialistic world perceives Nature as a resource to be exploited. This primordial difference has manifested as a socio-cultural conflict between these two societies. This may be due to the mutually exclusive and incorrigible nature of their social constructs which trigger perceptual obfuscation of symbiotic living. What appears to be an objective reality for one appears as subjective to the other and vice versa. This paper studies the strangeness of Billy Biswas, the protagonist of the novel in the socio-cultural milieu of conflicting realities.</p>

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Circuits of Surveillance?

Surveillance & Society ◽

10.24908/ss.v2i1.3324 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robin Williams ◽

Paul Johnson

Keyword(s):

Empirical Study ◽

Social Action ◽

Social Order ◽

Dna Profiling ◽

Closed Circuit ◽

Modern State ◽

The Novel ◽

Dna Database ◽

State Surveillance ◽

The Uk

This paper examines the increasing police use of DNA profiling and databasing as a developing instrumentality of modern state surveillance. It briefly notes previously published work on a variety of surveillance technologies and their role in the governance of social action and social order. It then argues that there are important differences amongst the ways in which several such technologies construct and use identificatory artefacts, their orientations to human subjectivity, and their role in the governmentality of citizens and others. The paper then describes the novel and powerful form of bio-surveillance offered by DNA profiling and illustrates this by reference to an ongoing empirical study of the police uses of the UK National DNA Database for the investigation of crime. It is argued that DNA profiling and databasing enable the construction of a ‘closed circuit’ of surveillance of a defined population.

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The American and the Clan

Advances in Social Science and Culture ◽

10.22158/assc.v3n1p47 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. p47

Author(s):

Johan Lundberg

Keyword(s):

French Revolution ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Henry James ◽

Individual Autonomy ◽

Modern State ◽

The Novel ◽

Liberal State ◽

Negative Freedom ◽

Starting Point ◽

Striking Contrast

The Henry James novel The American (1877) is analyzed on the basis of a conflict between the twoforms of liberty, which Isaiah Berlin in the end of the 1950s designated as negative and positive. Theconcept of negative freedom is in this interpretation of the novel connected to a contrast between thestate and the clan. With starting point in Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (2011),and Mark S Weiner in The Rule of the Clan (2013), modern rule of law is in the analysis of the novelregarded as something radically different from clan society.Based on an understanding of the modern state as a guarantee for individual autonomy and liberty, inBerlin’s negative meaning, James depicts in The American, the problems of maintaining liberty, in thenegative sense, in a community organised around the clan.In the novel, the American protagonist Christopher Newman with his lack of prejudices represent forhis French fiancée Claire de Cintréa possible way to freedom. What Newman does, is to offer Claire theopportunity to move from the French aristocracy to the economically strong Americanbourgeoisie—from a kind of feudalism to capitalism. The proposed move coincides with thedevelopmental curve of the novel, which with respect to Claire runs from clan to state.In striking contrast to Newman’s optimized sort of freedom, where neither any internalized norms norany economic limitations prohibit the protagonist from acting in the way that he desires, Claire is thedaughter of a family that represents the old world, with all its limitations and restrictions on negativeliberty. In a highly concrete manner she is prohibited from acting as she wants. This is emphasized inthe question of who to marry.The analysis connects Claire’s family to the ultramontanists and legitimists circles of 19th centuryParisian aristocracy. The terms refer to the ultra-conservative and fiercely anti-liberal movements that,after the French revolution, turned against the modern state power that allegedly forced on the French Catholics secular values.Legitimism and ultramontanism are in the novel intimately connected to maintaining an organisationaround the clan. In contrast to the clan, rule of law, democracy and individual freedom is seen asconsequences of the framework of the modern, liberal state.

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