Abstract

"L'interventismo della cultura" is Luisa Mangoni's first volume, appearing in 1974. It was the result of research she began while a university student in the Humanities, and then continued at "Istituto italiano per gli studi storici" in Naples and lastly within the group of young scholars who gathered around Renzo De Felice in the late 1960s. Tracing the history of intellectual groups and magazines in twentieth-century Italy, the book overcame the traditional cleavage between fascist and anti-fascist culture, proposing a new approach based on the theme of Gramsci's "Cultural Organization."