This volume would not have been possible without the support and encouragement of many people to whom we wish to offer our heartfelt thanks. Dr. Anthony Calcagno inspired us to go ahead with a publication following the symposium ‘Re-Thinking Italian Resistance: History, Literature, Music and Cinema’, held at Western University on 20 March 2015. We also thank deeply our contributors who...

The contributions brought together in this study on the Resistance derive from an interdisciplinary symposium held in March 2015 at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Liberation. This event was inspired by a series of questions that emerged during film screenings at the Italian Cineclub, held on campus by our graduate students. It was...

Luca Pocci

Millicent Marcus

Maria Laura Mosco

Molly Tambor

Pietro Pirani

Cristina Caracchini

Andrea Privitera

After the March on Rome and the creation of a coalition government, a task entrusted by the king to Mussolini, liberal leaders, Giolitti and Croce included, were under the illusion that a normalization of political life had...

Nicolas G. Virtue

Alessandro Portelli

Antonio Calcagno

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Antonio Calcagno is professor of philosophy at King’s University College at Western University, Canada. He has interests in contemporary European philosophy and Renaissance and medieval philosophy. He is the author of Giordano Bruno and the Logic of Coincidence (1998), Badiou and Derrida: Politics, Events and Their Time (2007), The Philosophy of Edith Stein...