Marco d eramo biography of martin

Tracking the terms 'populism' and 'the people' from the 19th century, Marco D'Eramo offers a striking new interpretation of their current.

Like a cross between Philip Marlowe and Walter Benjamin, Marco d'Eramo stalks the streets of Chicago, leaving no myth unturned.

Predictions of American decline have multiplied over the past half-century, in tandem with the country's expanding world power.

Examined here is a historical analysis by D'Eramo of travel and tourism which encompasses all forms of motion, from which no kind of movement or physical.

Marco D'Eramo.

Predictions of American decline have multiplied over the past half-century, in tandem with the country's expanding world power..

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The spiritual career of Padre Pio poses a challenge for those who, following Max Weber, expected that the world should become more and more disenchanted in the face of modern capitalist civilization.

It also helps to dismantle the notion that modernity is a univocal concept; rather, we must speak of plural modernities, simultaneous and mutually irreducible. From the former perspective, it is difficult to explain the fact that Francesco Forgione—as Pio was named on his birth in 1887—would become the most famous Italian of the last century.

"The World in a Selfie offers a spirited critique of the cultural politics of a tourist age.

Neither Antonio Gramsci nor Benito Mussolini can match the hordes of pilgrims, several million each year, who visit San Giovanni Rotondo to worship at Forgione’s grave. How could this sickly, ill-educated southerner achieve such global renown?

The details of his life have been rehearsed endlessly in media of every kind. Yet this translation of Sergio Luzzatto’s outstanding biography gives Anglophone readers the first opportunity to c