Beyond Right and Left: Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci

by Maurice A. Finocchiaro

Two Italian writers, Gaetano Mosca and Antonio Gramsci, have been very influential in twentieth-century political thought, the first cast as a thoroughgoing conservative, the second as the model of a humanistic Marxist. The author of this provocative book--the first systematic study of the connection between the two men--maintains that they are closer to each other than is commonly supposed--that they in fact belong to the same political tradition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300075359
• ISBN13: 9780300075359
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"