The chapters brought together in this volume build on the idea that in the 1970s-1980s the global language of human rights contributed to stimulating ideas of reform in the communist world. The protagonists were Mikhail Gorbachev and the Italian communists. The experience of the PCI was in many ways a peculiar case, but one that was linked to underground ideas of cultural change even in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's ascent signalled a fundamental shift, as he rejected the approach of reducing human rights to an ideological battleground and instead made it the centrepiece of a universalist relaunch. By exploring the encounter between reform communists and human rights, the authors reconstruct the metamorphosis and the end of communism within the context of the wider transformations taking place in European political cultures at the end of the Cold War.
Lo studio dei testi profetici è stato spesso caratterizzato da una certa frammentazione. Poco interesse è stato infatti dedicato dagli specialisti ai fenomeni di composizione presenti all’interno dei singoli libri, e ancora meno alle relazioni che possono intercorrere tra diversi libri profetici o addirittura tra i cosiddetti Profeti Maggiori e i Dodici Profeti Minori, con attenzione allo stadio finale dei testi, e riservando anche poco spazio a questioni di carattere ermeneutico e teologico. È stata spesso seguita una metodologia diacronica, genetica, attenta all’origine e alla storia della formazione dei singoli libri profetici e dell’insieme dei corpora, più che una metodologia sincronica, canonica e orientata all’elaborazione della teologia dei testi. Queste osservazioni possono costituire lo sfondo a partire dal quale riprendere la riflessione e farla ulteriormente avanzare e progredire, anche grazie alla presente pubblicazione.
The study of prophetic texts has often been characterized by a certain fragmentation. In fact, little attention has been dedicated by scholars to the phenomena of composition that is present in the individual books, and even less to the relationships present between the prophetic books, or even among the so-called Major Prophets, and the Twelve Minor Prophets, with particular attention to the final stage of the texts. In addition, little space has been dedicated to questions of a hermeneutical and theological character; moreover, a diachronic, genetic methodology has often been followed, attentive to the origin and history of the formation of individual prophetic books and of all corpora, rather than a synchronic, canonical methodology oriented to the elaboration of the theology of the texts. It seems to us that these observations can be the foundation from which to resume the reflection and make it progress further, as the authors intend with the present volume.