The Mask and Identity. A Conversation with Alessandro Pizzorno

Roberta Sassatelli; Alessandro Pizzorno

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9755

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Roberta Sassatelli University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4240-9691
Roberta Sassatelli is Professor of Sociology at the University of Milan (Italy). She has previously taught at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and the University of Bologna (Italy). Her research focuses on the theory of consumer action, the sociology of consumer practices and the politics of contemporary consumer culture as well as sociology of leisure and sport and sexuality and gender. Her last books are Corpo, genere e società, with R. Ghigi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2018); Italians and Food (ed.) (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2019).
Alessandro Pizzorno
Alessandro Pizzorno (Trieste, 1924 – Firenze, 2019), Emeritus Professor of Social Theory at the European University Institute in Florence, has been one of the main Italian sociologists and intellectuals of the Twentieth century. After his studies in Philosophy, Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Turin, Vienna and the EHESS Paris, in 1953-1959 he became Director of the Center of Social Relations at the Olivetti in Ivrea. In his early academic career he held posts in multiple institutions abroad and in Italy, including the University of Tehran from 1959-1960, the University of Urbino from 1960-1973 and the Nuffield College at the University of Oxford from 1973-1975. He worked as the Director of the Department of Sociology at the University of Milan from 1975, before taking up a post at Harvard University in 1976-1985 and at the European University Institute in 1986-1994. Professor Pizzorno was a founding member of the Academia Europaea, and authored many significant studies on social and political theory, collective action and cultural sociology. Among his works are Le classi sociali (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1959); Comunità e razionalizzazione (Torino: Einaudi, 1960); Lotte operaie e sindacato in Italia 1968-1972 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1978); I soggetti del pluralismo. Classi, partiti, sindacati (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1980); Le radici della politica assoluta (Milano: Feltrinelli, 1993); Il potere dei giudici (Il nocciolo, Bari: Laterza, 1998); Il velo della diversità. Studi su razionalità e riconoscimento (Milano: Feltrinelli, 2007); and Sulla maschera (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008). In 2004, he won the Medal of the President of the Republic and the Pisa Literary National Award.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/9755

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identity, Pizzorno, mask, recognition, reception

Abstract

An interview with Alessandro Pizzorno by Roberta Sassatelli.

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