Italian Psychology and Jewish Emigration under Fascism [electronic resource] : From Florence to Jerusalem and New York /
Guarnieri, Patrizia.author.
Fascism and the racial laws of 1938 dramatically changed the scientific research and the academic community. Guarnieri focuses on psychology, from its promising origins to the end of the WWII. Psychology was marginalized in Italy both by the neo-idealistic reaction against science, and fascism (unlike Nazism) with long- lasting consequences. Academics and young scholars were persecuted because they were antifascist or Jews and the story of Italian displaced scholars is still an embarrassing one. The book follows scholars who emigrated to the United States, such as psychologist Renata Calabresi, and to Palestine, such as Enzo Bonaventura. Guarnieri traces their journey and the help they received from antifascist and Zionist networks and by international organizations. Some succeeded, some did not, and very few went back.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Archival Sources; Introduction; 1 Psychologists "in the True Sense of the Word"; 2 Neo-idealism and the "Cinderella of the Sciences"; 3 Fascistization, Discrimination, and Persecution; 4 Th e Zionist Network and Enzo Bonaventura: From Florence to Jerusalem; 5 Th e Anti-Fascist Network and Renata Calabresi: From Florence to Rome and New York; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fascism and the racial laws of 1938 dramatically changed the scientific research and the academic community. Guarnieri focuses on psychology, from its promising origins to the end of the WWII. Psychology was marginalized in Italy both by the neo-idealistic reaction against science, and fascism (unlike Nazism) with long- lasting consequences. Academics and young scholars were persecuted because they were antifascist or Jews and the story of Italian displaced scholars is still an embarrassing one. The book follows scholars who emigrated to the United States, such as psychologist Renata Calabresi, and to Palestine, such as Enzo Bonaventura. Guarnieri traces their journey and the help they received from antifascist and Zionist networks and by international organizations. Some succeeded, some did not, and very few went back.
Università di Firenze. Istituto di psicologia
Italy—History.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Civilization—History.
History.
Political theory.
History of Italy.
European History.
Modern History.
Cultural History.
History of Science.
Political Theory.