A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International RelationsThis anthology gathers Giuseppe Mazzini's most important essays on democracy, nation building, and international relations, including some that have never before been translated into English. These neglected writings remind us why Mazzini was one of the most influential political thinkers of the nineteenth century--and why there is still great benefit to be derived from a careful analysis of what he had to say. Mazzini (1805-1872) is best known today as the inspirational leader of the Italian Risorgimento. But, as this book demonstrates, he also made a vital contribution to the development of modern democratic and liberal internationalist thought. In fact, Stefano Recchia and Nadia Urbinati make the case that Mazzini ought to be recognized as the founding figure of what has come to be known as liberal Wilsonianism. |
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... peaceful international order. Although he quite obviously discussed these issues within, and in relation to, the ... peace. Today Mazzini is largely remembered as the spiritual father of the Italian political nation. Yet as a public ...
... peace in the long run, although the transition might often be violent. Where oppressive regimes and foreign occupation made any peaceful political contestation virtually impossible, violent insurrection would be legitimate and indeed ...
... peace” among each other. He did so much more explicitly than Immanuel Kant, as we will argue below. For these reasons, Mazzini deserves to be seen as the leading pioneer of the more activist and progressive “Wilsonian” branch of liberal ...
... Peace: A Philosophical Sketch” [1795], in Kant: Political Writings, ed. Hans reiss (cambridge: cambridge university Press, 1991); Benjamin constant, De l'esprit de conquête et de l'usurpation dans leurs rapports avec la civilisation ...
... peaceful means; liberty of association, in order to render that opinion fruitful through contacts and exchanges with others; liberty of labor; liberty of trade.” cf. Mazzini, “on the duties of Man” [1841–60], chapter 5 of this book, 97 ...
Contents
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Democracy and the Nation A Republican Creed | 31 |
National Insurrection and Democratic Revolution | 109 |
International Politics Military Intervention and a New World Order | 167 |
Index | 241 |
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