Vico, Hegel and the Making of Modern Italy: The Spirit of the Risorgimento, 1799-1861

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Risorgimento
	Chasing modernity: Naples, Italy, Europe
	Structure and scope of the book
	Philosophy and politics across national boundaries
	Chasing modernity (cont’d): A southern affair
Chapter 1 Encounters
	Hegel in Italy: Unforeseen avenues
	The polycentric map of Hegelianism: From Germany to France
	The polycentric map of Hegelianism (cont’d): From France to Naples. A problem of method
	Hegel, (un)intelligible philosopher of history
Chapter 2 Vicomania
	Vico and Hegel: Looking for continuities
	Vico contra Hegel: A clash of historicisms
	Vico in Germany: Der unbekannte Philosoph
	Vico’s European renaissance: The case of France
	Italian Vicomania: Romantic visions, Vincenzo Cuoco and the southern exiles
	Reading Vico and Hegel in Milan: Debates after Cuoco
Chapter 3 Polemic
	Encountering Hegel: A private matter
	Public censors and private innovators
	Pasquale Galluppi and Ottavio Colecchi between Naples and Prussia
	The real, the man-made and the rational: Stefano Cusani, Stanislao Gatti and the making of a new historicism
	Francesco De Sanctis’s Vichian Hegelianism
	‘Neapolitan Hegelianism’: Challenging the myth
Chapter 4 Revolution
	The philosophies of revolution
	The politics of the ‘new science’: Making the Neapolitan nation
	Remembering 1799: Vincenzo Cuoco
	From 1799 to 1848: Il Nazionale, Revolution and Hegelianism
Chapter 5 Freedom
	Hegel’s liberal legacy: A contested history
	Silvio Spaventa between Piedmontese liberalism and Hegelianism
	Bertrando Spaventa: Theorizing the nation between revolution and unification
	Libertà contra Liberalism
	Vichianism, Hegelianism and Risorgimento political thought: A reassessment
Chapter 6 Modernity
	Philosophical modernity between Italy and Europe
	Italy, the European ‘other’
	Challenging the asymmetry, recasting history: National primacy and European hegemony
	The transnational making of European philosophy: A southern perspective
	Bertrando Spaventa: Modernity, philosophy and nationality
	From Europe to Italy: La filosofia italiana nelle sue relazioni colla filosofia europea
	Negotiating modernity between Vichianism and Hegelianism
Epilogue: The spirit of the Risorgimento, 1799–1861
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Epilogue: The spirit of the Risorgimento, 1799–1861
Bibliography
Index