Emanuele Saccarelli

Emanuele Saccarelli joined the department in 2005 after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in History from the University of Minnesota in the same year.

His research and teaching generally examine the relationship between political theory and practice. More specifically, Emanuele studies the following issues and problems:

Classical Marxism (Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Gramsci) and the unfortunate and reversible transition to post-Marxism and post-modernism. The role and historical evolution of intellectuals as political agents, including the rise and ongoing crisis of the academic intellectual. The revolutionary struggle for democracy and the entrance of broad popular masses into history as conscious subjects, particularly in the Ancient and Early-Modern periods. The history and contemporary political significance of Stalinism. Gender and family relations in Early-Modern political thought.

Emanuele teaches Marxism (507), Democracy and Mass Society (406), Ancient, Early-Modern, and American Political Thought (301a, 301b, 305).

His publications include:

Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism. The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition. (New York: Routledge Press, 2008).

"The Machiavellian Rousseau: Gender and Family Relations in the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality," Political Theory. Vol. 37 No. 4, (August 2009): 482-510.

"Alone in the World: the Existential Socrates in the Apology and Crito," Political Studies. Vol. 55 No. 3, (October 2007): 522-545.

"Empire, Rifondazione Comunista, and the Politics of Spontaneity," New Political Science. Vol. 26 No. 4, (December 2004): 569-591.

Emanuele is the faculty advisor for the International Students for Social Equality. In the Fall 2009 semester, the ISSE meets every Monday at 5:00pm in Adams Humanities 2116. For more information, see http://intsse.com/SDSU