Research: The origin of societal sovereignty. Saint-Simon, Saint-Simonians and modern political concepts
In October 2023, I proposed a presentation on Saint-Simon and the Reorganization of European Society at the ALTER Conference, "Reflections between Centers and Margins".
In July 2023, I participated in the AISPP (Italian Association for the History of Political Thought) Summer School.
From April to June 2023, I was a visiting scholar at EHESS (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) in Paris.
Publications:
Delfino L., A Method for the Conjuncture: Saint-Simon and the "Reorganization of European Society," presented at the ALTER Conference, Reflections between Centers and Margins, forthcoming from Carocci Editore, Rome, 2024.
Delfino L., Review of Díaz E., From Saint-Simon to Marx: The Origins of Socialism in France, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2020, Studi Politici, Rome, January 2022, pp. 169-173.
2020 Master's degree in Historical Sciences from the University of Bologna with a final grade of 110/110 cum laude.
2016 Bachelor's degree in History obtained from the University of Turin with a final grade of 103/110.
Title of the ongoing research project: At the Origin of Societal Sovereignty (tentative title).
Abstract of the research (in progress). Between 1802 and 1814, Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon spent many years composing texts of a scientific nature. Following an initial chapter surveying the international literature on Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism, the first section of the thesis delves into the connections between Saint-Simon's political theory and the physical, astronomical, and physiological contents of his early writings. This investigation reveals the centrality of the concept of "species" in Sansimonian thought; it is from this concept, drawing upon the terms of the taxonomic classification inherent in natural science, that Saint-Simon transforms the semantics of the class concept for both nineteenth-century science and politics. This linkage between social science and natural science unveils a theory of history that, in the hypothesis of the work, can be defined as the "technology of history." The second section will be dedicated to exploring the impact of political economy on earlier Sansimonian theories, culminating in the conception of the "industrial society."