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.
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Titolo del capitolo
Riccardo Del Punta: un illuminista radicale
Autori
Marzia Barbera
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0507-8.07
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Trasformazioni, valori e regole del lavoro
Sottotitolo del libro
Scritti per Riccardo Del Punta - Volume III
Curatori
William Chiaromonte, Maria Luisa Vallauri
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
1276
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0507-8
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0506-1
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0507-8
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0508-5
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919