Els antecedents de la crisi de l'estat liberal a Espanya i a Itàlia: una visió comparada (1875-1895)

The author proposes a comparative study in the frame of a macroarea formed by the south European countries. He points out the characteristics and difficulties of the liberal state establishment in the Mediterranean countries. At the same time he underlines the new importance of the intellectuals roll as one of the main consequences of that crisis.

Literatura i política catalanista: Josep Maria Valls i Vicens als inicis de la Restauració

Joseph Maria Valls i Vicens was an important Catalan intellectual who had an important performance in literature, politics , sociology, pedagogy and several cultural initiatives. The author focalizes the study of the young writer's thought as a common character of a wide sector of intellectuals that had developed an important activity in local politics and culture all through the period.

Joan Estelrich i l'Expansió Catalana. La traducció de Prat de la Riba i Cambó en la Itàlia feixista

El text presenta la important tasca de Joan Estelrich en projectar el problema nacional català a l'estranger entre els anys 1919-1926. Se subratlla l'empenta que dóna a la traducció d'obres de la cultura catalana en altres idiomes i especialment a l'italià. En aquest marc s'expliquen les relacions entre aquest intel·lectual català i l'italià Cesare Giardini. Seguint l'epistolari inèdit entre els dos, el text explica els rerefons en què es va fer la traducció de dos obres significatives com La nacionalitat catalana d'Enric Prat de la Riba i Entorn del feixisme italià de Francesc Cambó. En aquest marc, el text reflexiona i critica les interpretacions historiogràfiques que han llegit l'experiència de Cambó com la d'un autor proper al feixisme.

Norberto Bobbio: el dubte, entre la malenconia i el compromís

At the occasion of the recent death of the Italian philosopher Norberto Bobbio, the author approaches to the main lines of his analytical reflection about politics, state theory and cultural history. The Bobbio's biography is also presented as a significant example of the Italian Twentieth Century intellectual experience.

Líderes obreros y vanguardias culturales: la presencia del obrerismo en la Barcelona de la primera posguerra europea

Teresa Abelló analyses here an aspect of Barcelona's socio-cultural life in the period that goes from the first to the Second World War. She concentrates her attention on a new model of working-class leader that have promoted a clear cut with XIX century internationalist leading manual workers. The new manners embodied on the person of Salvador Seguít, he General Secretary of the anarchosyndicalist CNT. Abelló points aout at the same time . the relationship between these new social habits and the cultural avantgardes of the moment -either literary, pictoria or artistic in general.

La història cultural i l'intel·lectual professional. Una visió personal

The author exposes the main research lines in the history of local culture. He briefly considers the main lines in cultural contemporary history investigation. The author studies the introduction and development of cultural history based on the concept of intellectual professional in Catalan historiography at a moment when economical and social research were preferred by a large part of local historians.

Els antecedents de la crisi de l'estat liberal a Espanya i a Itàlia: una visió comparada (1875-1895)

The author proposes a comparative study in the frame of a macroarea formed by the south European countries. He points out the characteristics and difficulties of the liberal state establishment in the Mediterranean countries. At the same time he underlines the new importance of the intellectuals roll as one of the main consequences of that crisis.

Literatura i política catalanista: Josep Maria Valls i Vicens als inicis de la Restauració

Joseph Maria Valls i Vicens was an important Catalan intellectual who had an important performance in literature, politics , sociology, pedagogy and several cultural initiatives. The author focalizes the study of the young writer's thought as a common character of a wide sector of intellectuals that had developed an important activity in local politics and culture all through the period.