- Trasformazioni, valori e regole del lavoro
- Edited by William Chiaromonte, Maria Luisa Vallauri
Riccardo Del Punta: un illuminista radicale
- Marzia Barbera
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0507-8.07
The essay starts from some of Riccardo Del Punta's writings to show how , in its author's view, he was a "radical Enlightenment thinker,” torn between passion and doubt. The passion that nourished all of Del Punta's work was his humanistic passion for a classically radical liberalism, one that places at its center values that embody modern citizenship and egalitarianism: individual freedom, secularism, democratic politics, freedoms of thought and the press. These values are continuously crossed by doubt, which is cultivated as a choice of method, in an anti-ideological function. But they are also to be unyieldingly defended when under attack, as good ideals in themselves, not bound to a particular era (modernity) or cultural identity (the Western one). In that lies the “inflexible meekness” of our unforgettable friend and colleague.
- Keywords:
- Radical enlightenment,
- values,
- method,
University of Brescia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-2257-3702
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Riccardo Del Punta: un illuminista radicale
Authors
Marzia Barbera
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0507-8.07
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Book Title
Trasformazioni, valori e regole del lavoro
Book Subtitle
Scritti per Riccardo Del Punta - Volume III
Editors
William Chiaromonte, Maria Luisa Vallauri
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
1256
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0507-8
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979-12-215-0506-1
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0507-8
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0508-5
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919