This article is an investigation of a category that hal longly influenced the social sciences as well as the historiography. It tries to make the history of the emergence and the use of the idea of generation amongst authors like Lucien Febvre, Karl Mannheim, Ortega y Gasset and Pierre Nora but is not only an exercise of history of a concept, on the mood of the Koselleck very well known Lexicon: it would be an attempt to test the euristic capacity of the generation idea, that is to say as a tool able to product scientific results. In this sense its aim is to show how this category lives not only in the scientific field but also in the public arena, not only as a rationale discourse but also in a mythic fashion. It tries to test in which sense and within which limits it is today workable.
La meglio gioventù. L’idea di generazione tra discussione scientifica ed esperienza del proprio tempo
BENIGNO, Francesco
2007
Abstract
This article is an investigation of a category that hal longly influenced the social sciences as well as the historiography. It tries to make the history of the emergence and the use of the idea of generation amongst authors like Lucien Febvre, Karl Mannheim, Ortega y Gasset and Pierre Nora but is not only an exercise of history of a concept, on the mood of the Koselleck very well known Lexicon: it would be an attempt to test the euristic capacity of the generation idea, that is to say as a tool able to product scientific results. In this sense its aim is to show how this category lives not only in the scientific field but also in the public arena, not only as a rationale discourse but also in a mythic fashion. It tries to test in which sense and within which limits it is today workable.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
