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The left/right metaphor originated in the French National Assembly of 1789, and proved extremely appropriate. Left and right represent a spatial dyad with which we are all familiar (an object must be either on our left or on our right, and cannot be both; furthermore, there is an area directly in front of us where it is not very clear whether the
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In this book - which was a tremendous success in Italy - Norberto Bobbio challenges these views, arguing that the fundamental political distinction between Left and Right, which has shaped the two centuries since the French Revolution, has continuing relevance today.
31 de mar. de 2016 · Bobbio explores the grounds of this elusive distinction and argues that Left and Right are ultimately divided by different attitudes to equality. He carefully defines the nature of equality and...
left and right. Left- and right-wing moderates, for example, share a commitment to democracy, while extremists of both wings are hostile to democracy. Moderates and extremists, Bobbio says, are distinguished by their preferred methods, whereas left and right are distinguished by their respective values.
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The book focuses on the ideological distinction between left and right—or, again, in the context of US politics, between liberalism and conservatism—and its psychological underpinnings.
Bobbio argues that left and right are not absolute terms, but represent a shifting map of the political spectrum, relative to the particular cultural and historical contexts of a given time....
In his accessible yet provocative style, Bobbio constructs a historically informed, analytic division of the political universe along two foundational axes, from equality to inequality, from liberty to authoritarianism.
