Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
* For a more systematic development of these arguments, I refer to my book Se cessiamo di essere una nazione (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993) and to my articles : Erneutes Nachdenken ¨ber die Nation. Zwischen regionalem Separatismus und europäischer Vision, in: Neue Hefter für Philosophie, 34 (1993), pp. 42-67 and Politische Rationalität und Ziviltugend, in: Akten des Internationalen Hegel-Kongresses (Stuttgart, Klett Cotta, 1993) forthcoming.
Within the Italian sociological publications on the Leagues, mention should be made of La Lega lombarda, ed., R. Mannheimer (Milano, Feltrinelli, 1991) and I. Diamanti, La Lega, geografia, storia e sociologia di un nuovo soggetto politico (Roma, Donzelli, 1993).