“Una casa divisa”: conflitto civile e identità rivoluzionarie in America

Abstract

Moving from the most recent literature, not only the academic one, this essay analyzes the current status of internal unrest in the United States, which could even result in a new Civil War according to many analysts. Therefore, the crisis that is affecting the American emocracy is examined mainly with respect to the capability of the American revolution of igniting the world (as Jonathan Israel has notoriously argued) at the end of the 18th entury, and keeping it until few years ago.