Giuseppe Crivella - This text analyses the literary production of the Italian writer Alberto Savinio (1891-1952) in the light of his relations with French culture.

Sofia Tincani - The intellectual fervor that animated Paris during the interwar period stimulated the publication in France of Isaak Babel

Lukas Brock - After having moved to Paris in august 1902, Rilke is immediately challenged by a modern world that he rather avoided in the past.

Silvestre Gristina - The aim of this paper is to provide a historical-conceptual analysis of the link between Marx’s Parisian experience

Fiorenza Taricone - The article concerns the pedagogist and political writer, Zoé Gatti de Gamond, (1806-1854) follower and critical interpreter of Fourierism.

Arianna Amatruda - Starting from Heinrich Heine’s relationship to Saint-Simonianism and his reworking of its emancipatory thought

Alejandra M. Salinas - This chapter first highlights the institutional aspects of liberal democracy as present in volume one of Democracy in America.

Venelin I. Ganev - The collapse of Marxist dictatorships across Eastern Europe in 1989 set the stage for a process of democratization.

Guillermo Pérez - The current political and social crisis in Chile is a contemporary example that demonstrates the validity