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L'Istituto di Psicologia dell'Università di Firenze tra idealismo e fascismo
  • Patrizia Guarnieri,

How was the profile defined for aspiring university professors of a new and controversial discipline such as scientific psychology at the turn of the twentieth century? Who made these assessments when there were as yet no or insufficient professors in the sector? What effect did the hegemonic cultural and political orientations – the ostracism of Croce and Gentile – have on the quality of the discipline, on the fate of the single scholars and on the range of recruitment and academic career mechanisms? A journey into the history of highly topical issues through sources from institutional and private archives. From the liberal age to fascism, the volume concentrates on the first, prestigious Istituto di Psicologia in Italy, set up in Florence by Pasquale Villari, and on the traumatic stories, culminating in the anti-Jewish laws from 1938, of three generations of teachers beginning in 1903.

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Patrizia Guarnieri

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6464-5591

Patrizia Guarnieri is Full Professor of Cultural History at the University of Florence. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard University; CNR-NATO Fellow at The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine in London; Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute and a Faculty member on the Stanford University Overseas Program; M. Di Palermo McCauley Visiting Scholar at the John Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY, New York, in 2018 and in 2022. She is the director of the University of Florence’s project for the 80th anniversary of the racial laws. Her books range from the microhistory L’ammazzabambini. Legge e scienza in un processo di fine ‘800 (Turin, Einaudi 1988, then Laterza 2006), translated as A case of Child Murder (Polity Press 1992), to Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism. From Florence to Jerusalem and New York (New York, Palgrave - MacMillan, 2016), which was awarded the 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize for Cultural Studies.
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L'Istituto di Psicologia dell'Università di Firenze tra idealismo e fascismo

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Patrizia Guarnieri

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2012

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Firenze University Press

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2704-5986

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