Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 27 No. 3, 2007.
Original scientific paper
The Nation as Historical and Political Reality in the Carlo Cattaneo’s Thinking
Luka Bogdanić
Abstract
The intention of this short essay is to present Carlo Cattaneo’s conception of the nation. Since Cattaneo never wrote an essay where he gave an exhaustive explanation of this concept, this paper develops on the basis of outlines made by Nicolao Merkel in the book Il sangue e la terra (2001). In particular, this essay seeks to demonstrate that Cattaneo explicated the nature of nation starting with objective connotations, without overlooking that these connotations are pondered by human conscience, the modern nation being a product of social life. Consequently the paper highlights that the modern nation in Cattaneo is presented as being primordial to the origin of civil society and at the same time, intimately connected to the idea of freedom and equality. Finally, the paper tries to highlight the similarity between Cattaneo’s locality principal and the austro-marxist proposal of the cultural autonomy as defined by Otto Bauer.
Keywords
Carlo Cattaneo; nation; history; freedom; equality
Hrčak ID:
18307
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Publication date:
7.12.2007.
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