Article ID: CBB985457599

Célébrer Cesare Lombroso (1906-1909) (2020)

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L’article reconstruit les commémorations organisées en 1906 pour les trente ans d’enseignement turinois de Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909), ainsi que ses funérailles trois ans plus tard. À travers l’analyse du débat au conseil municipal et de la correspondance entre Lombroso et les autorités, se fait jour la dimension « à part » du personnage (juif, matérialiste et socialiste), au-delà du caractère officiel des célébrations, alors que la lecture des missives envoyées par admirateurs et disciples permet de souligner l’impact des idées lombrosiennes parmi les scientifiques et les personnages politiques de l’Italie du Sud, ce qui éclaire d’un jour nouveau les polémiques sur le présumé racisme anti-méridional de Lombroso. La reconstruction de la gestion de la mort de Lombroso, en 1909, confirme, quant à elle, l’altérité du personnage par rapport à la classe dirigeante de l’époque. En optant pour une mort laïque, proche d’une tradition minoritaire quoique bien ancrée dans la culture positiviste, Lombroso réaffirma son esprit à contre-courant. This article reconstructs the commemorations organised in 1906 for the thirty years of Cesare Lombroso's teachings in Turin, and for his funeral three years later. By analysing the debate which took place in the City Council, and Lombroso's correspondence with the authorities, a singular figure emerges (as a Jew, a materialist and a socialist), despite the formality of the commemorations. The letters written to him by his admirers and disciples reveal the impact of Lombroso's ideas on the scientific and political figures of Southern Italy, and reframe the polemic on Lombroso's supposed anti-Southern racism. The reconstruction of the arrangements after Lombroso's death, in 1909, confirms how different he was from the ruling class of his day. His choice of a secular ceremony, close to a minority tradition, yet firmly anchored in positivism, again demonstrates Lombroso's non-conformist character.

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Authors & Contributors
Tedesco, Luca
Azara, Liliosa
Musumeci, Emilia
Cegna, Annalisa
Loconsole, Matteo
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Concepts
Science and politics
Positivism
Criminology
Women
Medicine and gender
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Italy
Turin (Italy)
Europe
Perth (Western Australia)
South America
United States
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