Article: Beyond Right and Left: Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci. (Book reviews: summaries and comments *).

FINOCCHIARO, Maurice A. Beyond Right and Left: Democratic Elitism in Mosca and Gramsci. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xi + 309 pp. Cloth, $32.50--This book has appeared in the Italian Literature and Thought Series of Yale University Press, and not by chance the cover bears the green, white, and red of the Italian flag. The book is on political philosophy, although its subject matter is restricted to the role of culture. Finocchiaro investigates two Italian thinkers: the conservative Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941), author of The Ruling Class (appeared first in Italian 1896; translated into English 1939), and the communist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), founding father of ...

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