Abstract
Sartre was an author who was present on the Italian intellectual landscape with quite some editorial success. In comparison to other nations—with the exception of France, of course—it is no exaggeration to say that Italy is the nation with which Sartre forged relations more considerable and longer lasting than anywhere else. In addition, the regular physical presence of Sartre on the Italian territory, especially for his holidays, allowed him to establish personal relationships of considerable depth with political figures and philosophers. Italy was a country wherein Sartre integrated himself into the cultural world on a personal level, particularly into the cultural world that was close to politics and that became a laboratory for ideas. In fact, Sartre’s impressions of Italy were so important that he considered writing a monograph on Italy testifying his own change from the condition of a simple tourist to someone who had experienced the different aspects of life and Italian culture.
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We take advantage here of Giovanni Invitto’s rich fund of references in Invitto (1987).
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For an exhaustive summary of this controversy, see Faracovi (1987).
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Palmiro Togliatti was the secretary-general of the PCI during two periods, 1927–1934 and 1938–1964.
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Literally ‘new philosophers’—i.e. André Glucksmann, Bernard-Henri Lévy, etc. They represented the anti-Marxist left at the end of the 70s, a sort of anti-totalitarian thinking about human rights and about the right of intervention to save democracy all over the world against communism and anti-colonial radicalism.
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An exception to the understanding of the Critique was Sergio Moravia a few years later. Moravia fully understood how the Sartrean operation moved the sociological issue from class activity to group activity. Although Moravia rejected this notion as ahistorical and too vague in light of the inequalities of capitalist production, he acknowledged that this notion moved Sartre away from the classic view of Hegelian history as the unfolding of reason (Moravia 1983, p. 128).
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Caddeo, F. (2020). The Impact in Italy of Sartre and His Thinking. In: Betschart, A., Werner, J. (eds) Sartre and the International Impact of Existentialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38482-1_8
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