Edward Christie Banfield
Un americano nel Mezzogiorno
"A good professor is a bastard perverse... "
Edward C. Banfield
" III. 2.
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" I. 8. Opere, critiche e consensi "
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Nel 1970 pubblicò il suo libro di maggior successo: The Unheavenly City. A proposito di quest'opera James Nuechterlein scrive di avere letto libri più importanti e più eleganti che, come esso riguardano la politica urbana, ciò nonostante, la ritiene quella che più delle altre ha fatto la differenza per lui. Lo stesso Nuechterlein sottolinea che per Banfield era importante distinguere tra le cause storiche e le cause persistenti dello svantaggio dei neri. Lo stile di Banfield, particolarmente in quest'opera, fu malizioso e provocatorio: un peccato commesso con piena avvertenza e deliberato consenso. Fu lui stesso a prevedere e predire che il suo libro avrebbe colpito molti lettori come il lavoro di un professore bisbetico e meschino; e bisogna dire che ci vide benissimo! [...] Il problema su cui si voleva focalizzare circa le politiche contemporanee, era come distinguere l'autentica moralità dal suo cattivo fratello minore: il moralismo. |
Concretamente The Unheavenly City affronta il tema delle classi sociali e della loro convivenza in ambito urbano. Banfield disegna un ritratto sociologico di quello che egli chiama <lower - class individual> contrapposto al <middle - class professional>. Il problema dell'individuo di classe inferiore è che egli vive rincorrendo il momento presente, a discapito di una seria prospettiva futura. Una descrizione non incompatibile con la cultura e l'ethos che osservò e descrisse nell'Italia meridionale.
<[...] il tema del libro diventa in effetti la povertà urbana. Questa non è una questione di razza, ma di classe [...] Banfield, infatti, distingue quattro classi sociali, ordinate dall'alto al basso in base all'atteggiamento psicologico di immaginarsi in un futuro più o meno prossimo, con comportamenti conseguenti [...]> [...]" |
(Testo tratto da "La persistenza di una società arretrata. Analisi e attualità dell'opera di E. C. Banfield" di Pierfrancesco Sozzo; citazioni nel testo tratte da "A. Bagnasco, Ritorno a Montegrano, in E. C. Banfield, Le basi morali di una società arretrata, il Mulino, Bologna 2010")
Edward C. Banfield (1916 - 1999 )
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http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_C._Banfield
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familismo_amorale
http://www.elliottbanfield.com/
http://edwardcbanfield.wordpress.com/
http://edwardcbanfield.wordpress.com/biography/
http://edwardcbanfield.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/biographiesobituariesremembrances/
http://edwardcbanfield.wordpress.com/books/
http://edwardcbanfield.wordpress.com/category/fiction/
http://edwardcbanfield.wordpress.com/category/humor/
http://edwardcbanfield.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/banfieldisms/
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http://www.bartolomeodimonaco.it/online/?p=3249
http://www.federalismi.it/ApplMostraDoc.cfm?Artid=15768&edoc=14032010194415.pdf&tit=Istituzione%20dell'Osservatorio%20Scientifico%20regionale%20%E2%80%9CEdward%20C.%20Banfield%E2%80%9D%20per%20la%20salvaguardia%20del%20patrimonio%20etno-antropologico%20della%20Basilicata