What next? Instead of a preface. Introduzione su Essays on Culture, Politics and Power di Franco Ferrarotti.

Culture, power and politics are here introduced as interconnected and dynamic components of a social whole. They mutually affect the nature and performance of each other, and this game of the creation of society and of the individual comes through a set of ontological and epistemological arguments with the duality between sociology and philosophy and how culture itself creates counter-culture and how this becomes visible as a struggle of who will exert power. The author provokes but at the same time gives convincing arguments of who and what is an intellectual by a historical excursus about intellectualism and society. Ferarrotti continues to develop his lines of thinking when he deals with rationalization as a distinctive mark of the modern world. The risk of total bureaucratization is a real one. The case of Italy as a country caught between tradition and modernity is a convincing illustration of the difficulties that are bound to meet all the countries daring enough to decide to modernize their traditional structure.