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reached its peak, involving scientists, intellectuals of different backgrounds, historians
and philosophers. Several occasions gave rise to polemics and ideological contrasts, which were mostly consumed between Marxists. The Scientia case, which arose with the editorial on the theme “Science, Culture and Society” in 1973, originated a small ‘war,’ which was followed by an episode of political-ideological censorship that extended until 1975. The episode, which also involved the journal Sapere and several historians and scientists, turned into a symbolic battle for freedom of speech: The discussion concerned not only the protracted reflection on the neutrality of science, but also the contrast between methodological, epistemological and historiographical approaches. The opposition between dialectical materialism and historical materialism consequently took on the features of a generational clash, and a battle between veteran-communist dogmatism and the innovative instances of authors close to extra-parliamentary movements: this was the origin of the ‘clash’ between Geymonat’s Milanese school and the post-Sixties generation of historians of science. Thanks to unpublished documents, it has been possible to reconstruct an unexplored but crucial episode of the “Italian science wars,” fundamental to understanding the dynamics that inflamed these wars from then on.
Italian scientific biopics experienced a period of extraordinary media hype in the 1970s, when some intellectuals personally committed to bringing the lives of the scientists of the past to television in order to discuss the relationship between knowledge and power in the present. Nevertheless, might we properly speak of “Italian-style” historical-scientific fictional drama? To answer this question, we will focus on Roberto Rossellini, Liliana Cavani and, above all, Lucio Lombardo Radice, a promoter, scientific consultant, author and presenter of, and sometimes even actor in, some of the most controversial of these scientific biopics. This article aims, first of all, to reconstruct this history, explaining the reasons for the success of the genre, starting in the 1960s, and the crisis it underwent in the 1980s; secondly, to ascertain the influences these ideological works exerted on choices, approaches and styles of the next generation of science historians and communicators.
reached its peak, involving scientists, intellectuals of different backgrounds, historians
and philosophers. Several occasions gave rise to polemics and ideological contrasts, which were mostly consumed between Marxists. The Scientia case, which arose with the editorial on the theme “Science, Culture and Society” in 1973, originated a small ‘war,’ which was followed by an episode of political-ideological censorship that extended until 1975. The episode, which also involved the journal Sapere and several historians and scientists, turned into a symbolic battle for freedom of speech: The discussion concerned not only the protracted reflection on the neutrality of science, but also the contrast between methodological, epistemological and historiographical approaches. The opposition between dialectical materialism and historical materialism consequently took on the features of a generational clash, and a battle between veteran-communist dogmatism and the innovative instances of authors close to extra-parliamentary movements: this was the origin of the ‘clash’ between Geymonat’s Milanese school and the post-Sixties generation of historians of science. Thanks to unpublished documents, it has been possible to reconstruct an unexplored but crucial episode of the “Italian science wars,” fundamental to understanding the dynamics that inflamed these wars from then on.
Italian scientific biopics experienced a period of extraordinary media hype in the 1970s, when some intellectuals personally committed to bringing the lives of the scientists of the past to television in order to discuss the relationship between knowledge and power in the present. Nevertheless, might we properly speak of “Italian-style” historical-scientific fictional drama? To answer this question, we will focus on Roberto Rossellini, Liliana Cavani and, above all, Lucio Lombardo Radice, a promoter, scientific consultant, author and presenter of, and sometimes even actor in, some of the most controversial of these scientific biopics. This article aims, first of all, to reconstruct this history, explaining the reasons for the success of the genre, starting in the 1960s, and the crisis it underwent in the 1980s; secondly, to ascertain the influences these ideological works exerted on choices, approaches and styles of the next generation of science historians and communicators.
Interventi di Augusto Garuccio, Vincenzo Fano, Gino Tarozzi e Isabella Tassani.
A cura di Fabio Lusito e Gerardo Ienna
teorica ottenevano la possibilità di dibattere, dal proprio punto di vista, svariati temi scientifici. Nel 1973, si decise di concedere uno spazio editoriale alla discussione dell’ampio tema “Scienza, cultura e società”. Fu l’origine di una piccola guerra che sfociò in un episodio di censura su basi ideologiche.
L’episodio coinvolse diversi uomini di scienza in una battaglia simbolica per la libertà d’espressione. La ricostruzione dell’avvenimento è possibile grazie a materiali finora inediti e alla rilettura dei volumi dedicati al tema. Il caso di censura, figlio della contrapposizione ideologica tra materialisti storici e materialisti dialettici, offre un caso di studio per approfondire nel merito i posizionamenti teorici su cui l’interpretazione scientifica si scindeva su basi marxiste e, parallelamente, la comprensione e la
valutazione dei motivi che lasciarono scaturire accesi dibattiti in relazione al problema della neutralità della scienza, verso fine decennio. Partendo dunque dal caso di Scientia – che coinvolse diversi scienziati, storici della scienza e filosofi – ci si propone di chiarire gli aspetti ideologici, teorici e politici che confluirono, negli anni Settanta, in quelle che sono state abilmente definite le ‘Italian Science Wars’.
Una collaborazione tra il Seminario di Storia della Scienza (Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro) e Arci La Garra per una serie di incontri di approfondimento storico e scientifico per la cittadinanza.
La contemporaneità offre diverse sfide che intrecciano insieme la scienza, le nuove tecnologie e la loro ricaduta sulla società e sulle istituzioni. A partire da questa urgenza, la serie di incontri virtuali cercherà di fare chiarezza su alcuni aspetti importanti della tecnoscienza contemporanea, la cui attualità appare di grande interesse, relativamente alle ricadute che essa ha sia a livello istituzionale, sia nelle vite di ogni giorno dei cittadini, utenti consapevoli o inconsapevoli dei “prodotti” e dei servizi scientifico-tecnologici.
Per fare questo si farà ricorso ad uno sguardo globale, che tenga presente le dinamiche internazionali e le ricadute sociali senza circoscrivere l'analisi al solo Occidente.
Bari, 21 febbraio 2020
morale e civile del Paese dal Dopoguerra fino ai primi anni Ottanta. Il libro
concentra l’attenzione sul contributo scientifico, politico e sociale: tre ambiti, questi, solidamente intrecciati nell’evoluzione
del pensiero del matematico comunista. È un approfondimento storico-
scientifico e, al contempo, un resoconto dell’esperienza personale, politica
e culturale di Lombardo Radice con cui si intende colmare un vuoto nel panorama editoriale italiano.