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Product Description: Norberto Bobbio concibe la filosofía política como la disciplina dedicada a estudiar los temas recurrentes que integran una teoría general de la política, entre estos destaca la tipología de las formas de gobierno. El autor analiza el tema en pensadores representativos, desde la Grecia clásica hasta la época contemporánea: Platón, Aristóteles, Maquiavelo, Bodino, Hobbes, Vico y Montesquieu, Hegel y Marx...read more

Product Description: Investigación acerca de la inevitable supervivencia del régimen democrático definido con precisión por Bobbio como "un conjunto de reglas procesales para la toma de decisiones colectivas en el que está prevista y propiciada la más amplia participación posible de los interesados" ...read more

Product Description: Este libro trata de la paz, a traves de un conjunto de articulos sobre la no violencia, la etica, el desarme, el equilibrio del terror y el papel de la ONU. La paz es la aspiracion de la humanidad. Abarca los derechos humanos que las guerras destruyen y constituye nuestra riqueza etica...read more

Product Description: El interés central de este estudio está puesto en las antítesis entre sociedad civil y Estado, democracia y dictadura. Bobbio repasa el pensamiento jurídico-político sobre las nociones de gobierno y Estado desde la Grecia clásica y la Edad Media hasta el marxismo, el funcionalismo y la teoría de sistemas...read more

Product Description: Recuento histórico y filosófico-político acerca de los problemas derivados de la correlación entre el liberalismo y la democracia. Bobbio considera que la democracia es consecuencia directa del Estado liberal y sustenta que el Estado es el resultado de la fórmula de igualdad expresada en la soberanía popular...read more

Liberalism and democracy have long been assumed to exist in a complementary relationship, if not always an entirely easy one. This book scrupulously investigates the reason for this alliance and the sources of its tensions, providing a lucid and succinct introduction to some of the subject’s central concepts and concerns.

Product Description: En las ultimas decadas, Norberto Bobbio habia venido albergando la idea de redactar una Teoria general de la politica , basada tanto en las ensenanzas de los autores clasicos como en los principales problemas politicos de su tiempo...read more

Product Description: In this lively and engaging book, Norberto Bobbio, the distinguished contemporary Italian philosopher, and the political theorist Maurizio Viroli, explore a range of themes relating to the idea of the Republic and some of the major political and ethical issues of the day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A Political Life is the compelling autobiography of Norberto Bobbio, one of the foremost political thinkers in postwar Italy. In dramatic and lively prose, Bobbio guides us through some of the most significant events of the twentieth century, charting their influence on his life and work...read more

Product Description: A Political Life is the compelling autobiography of Norberto Bobbio, one of the foremost political thinkers in postwar Italy. In dramatic and lively prose, Bobbio guides us through some of the most significant events of the twentieth century, charting their influence on his life and work...read more

Product Description: Selección de trabajos por Carlo Violi, que a lo largo de su vida ha escrito Norberto Bobbio sobre la obra de Marx y el marxismo. El primero es de 1946 y el último de 1992. La relación entre cultura liberal y la cultura marxista.

Product Description: This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccupied writers from Cicero to Amery, but in this volume Norberto Bobbio produces an account that is specific to our times...read more

Product Description: In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our time. Written over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the essays in this volume develop some of the central themes in Bobbio's moral and political philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our time. Written over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the essays in this volume develop some of the central themes in Bobbio's moral and political philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is the first English-language edition of a collection of writings by one of Italy's most important radical liberals, Piero Gobetti (1901-1926). In thirty-five thought-provoking essays, Gobetti proposes an original and challenging notion of liberalism as a revolutionary theory of both the individual and social and political movements, His theory is of particular relevance in the wake of the collapse of Marxist socialism, as non-Western countries with nonliberal or antiliberal cultural and moral traditions confront the problems of transition toward democracy and liberalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In this volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views. With great astuteness and profound scholarship, Bobbio unfolds the elements for a general theory of politics. Bobbio's wide-ranging argument is focused on four themes: the distinction between the public and the private; the concept of civil society; differing conceptions of the state and differing ways of understanding the legitimacy of state power; and the relation between democracy and dictatorship. Bobbio's discussion draws on a wealth of theoretical and historical material, from Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Locke to Marx, Weber, Habermas and Foucault. By analysing the development of different languages of politics in relation to changing social and historical contexts, Bobbio deepens our understanding of the concepts we use to describe and evaluate modern political systems.

Politicians and pundits have long disparaged their opponents with polemicist cries of "leftist!" or "rightist!" But with the fall of communism and the recent conservative ascendancy in the United States and Europe, many commentators have flatly declared that the traditional left/right distinction has lost its relevance. Now, even as political players scramble to redefine themselves with freshly "spun" labels, Norberto Bobbio asserts that the demise of the left/right distinction has been greatly exaggerated. Bobbio argues that left and right are not absolute terms, but represent a shifting map of the political spectrum, relative to the particular cultural and historical contexts of a given time. The distinction continues to endure because it reflects the essentially antithetical nature and dynamics of democratic politics. In his accessible yet provocative style, Bobbio constructs a historically informed, analytic division of the political universe along two foundational axes, from equality to inequality, from liberty to authoritarianism. He then charts the past and present tendencies of the left and the right, in both their more moderate and more virulently extreme forms. Ultimately, for Bobbio, the measure of post-modern democracy will indeed lie in where and how we situate ourselves relative to these critical left/right parameters, in whether we cast ourselves, our votes, and our era in terms of political expediency, social viability, or moral responsibility. A bestseller in Italy, where it sold over three hundred thousand copies, Left and Right is an important contribution to our understanding of global political developments in the 1990s and beyond.

Product Description: This study provides a clarification and defence of human rights. It argues that the development of human rights is an historical sign of progress in a world marked by the proliferation of cruel wars, the arms trade, pollution, famine and almost universal pessimism...read more

Product Description: Este ensayo abarca unos 70 años de la historia contemporánea italiana, en el que se abordan temas diversos como el positivismo, el marxismo, el catolicismo y el mundo moderno, la antidemocracia, los socialismos, la revolución y los reaccionarios, así como el fascismo; asuntos estudiados por Bobbio con la lucidez y claridad que lo caracteriza...read more

Product Description: Pre-eminent among European political philosophers, Norberto Bobbio has throughout his career turned to the political theory of Thomas Hobbes. Gathered here for the first time are the most important of his essays which together provide both a valuable introduction to Hobbes's thought and a fresh understanding of Hobbes's place in the theory of modern politics...read more

Product Description: Los trabajos incluidos en este volumen han sido escogidos por el mismo Bobbio como representativos de su quehacer intelectual, por cuanto en ellos la libertad y la igualdad son examinadas en su triple dimensión, inseparable, en el paradigma de la modernidad, de valores morales, políticos y jurídicos...read more

Product Description: Can democracy provide a path to socialism? Can civil rights and democratic institutions be protected....