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Aldo Capitini on opposition and liberation : a life in nonviolence / edited by Piergiorgio Giacchè ; translated by Jodi L. Sandford.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitini, Aldo.
- Protest movements--Italy--History--20th century.
- Protest movements.
- Nonviolence--Italy--History--20th century.
- Nonviolence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.
- Summary:
- This translation of Aldo Capitini's quasi-autobiography is long overdue. It presents an edited series of his writings spanning his lifetime (1899-1968). An Italian philosopher of nonviolence, poet, teacher, political and non-secular religious man of compresence and persuasion, Capitini encouraged his readers to embrace the philosophy of noncooperation, nonviolence, and nonmendacity. Self-taught, later removed from his university position and imprisoned as an anti-fascist, he opted for liberalsocialism and "on-the-ground strategies for social change". His civil rights movement, somewhere between that of Martin Luther King and Gandhi, insisted on ever-pertinent and frighteningly contemporary concepts. The founder of the first Italian vegetarian association (1952) and the first Perugia Assisi Peace March (1961), Capitini preferred to work from the bottom-up and refused to become an elected political figure, which eventually led to his exclusion from official political participation. His revolutionary voice epitomizes a fundamental part of democratic involvement: if we participate, "today's utopia can be tomorrow's reality".
- Contents:
- Intro
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Premise
- Introductory Note to the Translation
- Translation
- Once Again with Capitini
- Introduction
- Opposition and Liberation
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- A Farewell.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-4988-7
- 1-5275-4846-5
- OCLC:
- 1153810983
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