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# What is liberty? (cf. Mazzini, Verga, & Viroli) | # What is liberty? (cf. Mazzini, Verga, & Viroli) | ||
| + | # How is the state related to the underlying social culture (society)? How did differences in social culture across Italy differentially affect state / society relationships? | ||
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- What forces and unique circumstances were involved in Italy's Unification? To what extent was it successful?
- How does the North-South conflict reflect anthropological and historical difference between the two part of the country?
- How have the role of the intellectual been theorized and actively performed in modern Italy?
- What is culture? What difference does it make if we take an evolutionary, marxist, or a symbolic approaches to culture?
- Under what circumstances can we say that culture makes mistakes?
- What characterized the Italian resistance and in what ways can we explain the forces and circumstances that made it happen?
- What is liberty? (cf. Mazzini, Verga, & Viroli)
- How is the state related to the underlying social culture (society)? How did differences in social culture across Italy differentially affect state / society relationships?
