Bobbio was a Liberal Socialist in the tradition of Piero Gobetti , Carlo Rosselli , Guido Calogero , and Aldo Capitini . He was also strongly influenced by Hans Kelsen and Vilfredo Pareto .
Bobbio was born into what his '' Guardian '' obituary described as "''...a relatively wealthy, middle-class Turin family''" whose sympathies Bobbio would later characterize as "''philo- Fascist ', regarding fascism as a necessary evil against the supposedly greater danger of Bolshevism ''". In high school he met Vittorio Foa , Leone Ginzburg and Cesare Pavese , and at the university he became a friend of Alessandro Galante Garrone .
In 1942 , under the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini and during World War II , Bobbio joined the then-illegal radical liberal party Partito D'Azione ("Party of Action") and was briefly imprisoned 1943 and 1944 . He ran unsuccessfully in the 1946 Constituent Assembly Of Italy elections. With the party's failure in a post-war Italy dominated by the Christian Democrats , Bobbio left electoral politics and focused back in academia.
A strong advocate of the Rule Of Law , the Separation Of Powers , and the limitation of powers, he was a socialist, but opposed to what he perceived as the anti- Democratic , Authoritarian elements in most Marxism . He was a strong partisan of the " Historic Compromise " between the Italian Communist Party and the Christian Democrats, and a fierce critic of Silvio Berlusconi . Bobbio died in Turin, the same city in which he was born and lived most of his life.
Bobbio studied Philosophy of Law with Gioele Solari ; he later taught this curriculum in Camerino , Siena , Padua , and ultimately back in Turin as Solari's successor in 1948 ; from 1972 to 1984 , he had a chair in the newly created faculty of political science in Turin.
He was a National Associate of the Lincean Academy and longtime director (together with Nicola Abbagnano ) of the ''Rivista di Filosofia''. He became a Corresponding Associate of the British Academy in 1966 ; in 1979 he was nominated as Senator-for-life by Italian President Sandro Pertini . Bobbio received diplomas '' Honoris Causa '' from the Universities of Paris , Buenos Aires , Madrid , Bologna , and Chambéry .
- ''L'indirizzo fenomenologico nella filosofia sociale e giuridica'' ('' Phenomenological Turn in Social and Legal Philosophy'', Torino, 1934
- ''Scienza e tecnica del diritto'' (''The Science and Technical Aspects of Law''), Torino, 1934
- ''L'analogia nella logica del diritto'' (''The Use of Analogy in Legal Logic''), Torino, 1938
- ''La consuetudine come fatto normativo'' (''Custom as a Normative Fact''), Padova, 1942
- ''La filosofia del decadentismo'' (''The Philosophy of Decadence''), Torino, 1945
- ''Teoria della scienza giuridica'' (''Theory of Legal Science''), Torino, 1950
- ''Politica e cultura'' (''Politics and Culture''), Torino, 1955
- ''Studi sulla teoria generale del diritto'' (''Essays in the General Theory of Law''), Torino, 1955
- ''Teoria della norma giuridica'' (''A Theory of Judicial Norms''), Torino, 1958
- ''Teoria dell'ordinamento giuridico'' (''A Theory of Legal Order''), Torino, 1960
- ''Il positivismo giuridico'' (''Legal Positivism''), Torino, 1961
- ''Locke e il diritto naturale'' ('' Locke and Natural Law ''), Torino, 1963
- ''Italia civile'' (''Civil Italy''), Torino, 1964
- ''Giusnaturalismo e positivismo giuridico'' (''Natural Law and Legal Postivism '', Milano, 1965
- ''Da Hobbes a Marx'' (''From Hobbes to Marx ''), Napoli, 1965
- ''Profilo ideologico del Novecento italiano'' (''An Ideological Profile of Nineteenth Century Italy''), Torino, 1960, 1990 (new edition)
- ''Saggi sulla scienza politica in Italia'' (''Tests of Political Science in Italy''), Torino, 1969
- ''Diritto e Stato nel pensiero di E. Kant'' (''Law and State in the Thought of Immanuel Kant , Torino, 1969
- ''Ideological Profile Of Italy In The Twentieth Century'' (1969) ¹
- ''Una filosofia militante: studi su Carlo Cattaneo'' (''A Militant Philosopher: Essays on Carlo Cattaeno ''), Torino, 1971
- ''Quale socialismo'' (''Which Socialism''), Torino, 1977
- ''I problemi della guerra e le vie della pace'' (''The Problem of War and the Roads to Peace''), Bologna, 1979
- ''Studi hegeliani'' ('' Hegel ian Essays''), Torino, 1981
- ''Il futuro della democrazia'' (''The Future of Democracy: A Defence Of The Rules Of The Game''), Torino, 1984
- ''Maestri e compagni'' (''Teachers and Companions''), Firenze, 1984
- ''State, Government And Society'' (English-language publication 1985)
- ''Il terzo assente'', (''The Absent Third'') Torino, 1988
- ''Thomas Hobbes'', Torino, 1989
- ''L'età dei diritti'' (''The Rule of Law''), Torino, 1989
- ''The Age Of Rights'' (English-language publication 1990)
- ''A Just War?'' (1991), a defense of the Gulf War , about which he later changed his mind. ¹
- ''Destra e sinistra'' ('' Right and Left ''), Roma, 1994
- ''In Praise Of Meekness'' (1994) ¹
- ''De senectute'' (''Of Old Age''; the Latin title is an allusion to Cicero 's '' Cato Maior De Senectute '', Torino, 1996
- ''Autobiografia'' (''Autobiography''), Roma, Bari, 1999
- ''Dialogo intorno alla repubblica'' (''Dialogue about the Republic''), Bari, 2001
¹ These works, unmentioned in the translated Italian-language article on Bobbio, are mentioned the ''Guardian'' obituary.
- This article began as a translation of the in the Italian-language Wikipedia, retrieved January 31 , 2005.
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