TY - BOOK AU - Luca Meldolesi PY - 2024 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2576-9723 SN - 9781636675510 TI - Late Hirschman T2 - Theoretical exercises in “self-subversion” DO - 10.3726/b21041 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1385546 N2 - Late Hirschman: Theoretical exercises in "Self-Subversion" draws from the Colorni-Hirschman intellectual tradition the author has developed with close colleagues: recalls and rationalizes personal memoires that come from the long collaboration of the author with Albert Hirschman; learns – once again – in depth from his work; desires, if possible, to make progress on some vexed questions; and breaks away from all forms of ritualism. Hirschman, homme libre, did not like orthodoxies or intellectual boundaries and the like. He certainly would not have liked to be now pigeon-holed by a part of the Academia. Gradually exploring alternative directions, Meldolesi proposes, therefore, in this book a group of exercises. They have been suggested by the late Hirschman’s self-subverting phase of intellectual elaboration that, starting from the "interpretive social science" point of view elaborated in the late ‘70s of last century together with Clifford Geertz and other leading intellectuals at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton N.J.), touched later on numerous aspects of the long experience of Hirschman developed in three continents, and mirrored cautiously in his extraordinary work. The ambition of these exercises lies in helping the "triggering off" the cultural, economic and political potential that might be stemmed from late Hirschman: for understanding some key aspects of the past, exploring hand in glove the world we live in, and acting accordingly. KW - Self-Subversion, Exit, Voice and the Fate of GDR, Marshall Plan, The Dawn of Contemporary Europe, European Payment Union, Linkages, Possibilism, Development Projects, Shifting Involvements, Sociological Significance of the Meal, Morality and the Social Sciences, Toward a New Approach, Late Hirschman, Theoretical Exercises in “Self-Subversion, Luca Meldolesi LA - English ER -