出版社：Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research
摘要：I had at least four different careers: translator and editorial consultant, as a young
man (with Publisher Einaudi, Turin), 1944-1946; business associate (with Adriano
Olivetti, 1948-1960); as an international diplomat (at the OECE, in Paris, responsible
of the Facteurs Sociaux and Head of the Human Sciences Section; 1957-1962); as a
Member of the Italian Parliament (1958-1963). But finally, my only real career—
some sort of underground current unifying my whole life experience—has been the
career of university professor at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, having, by a
stroke of good luck, reinvented, as it were, a discipline that had been eliminated from
any academic curriculum by Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile during fascism
(the same thing happened in Germany during Nazism), that is sociology. As a
Member of Parliament I was obviously independent, belonging to the Gruppo Misto,
to the left of the Christian Democrats. My main target consisted essentially in
changing the prevailing, political and intellectual attitude of the Italian élite,
traditionally prone to adopt an old-fashioned rhetorical posture in dealing and trying
to tackle specific issues and to dissolve ethical problems into aesthetic, if hot
theatrical, gestures.
