Luciano Luigi Pellicani (10 April 1939 – 11 April 2020) was an Italian sociologist, journalist and university professor.

Academic career

Pellicani was born in

Ruvo di Puglia ''"Ruvo died to revive, like the Phoenix of Heliopolis, from the ashes of itself"'' Ruvo di Puglia (; nap, label= Ruvese, Rìuve ) is a city and '' comune (municipality)'' in the Metropolitan City of Bari in Apulia, southern Italy. It is a ve ...

. He was awarded a degree in Political Science from the University of Rome in 1964. In 1971 he obtained a degree in Political Sociology and in 1981 became a professor of that subject. He has taught at the

University of Urbino The University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" ( it, Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", ''UniUrb'') is an Italian university located in Urbino, a walled hill-town in the region of Marche, located in the north-eastern part of central Italy. The ...

and at the

University of Naples The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

. In 1984 he became Professor of Political Sociology at the Faculty of Political Science at LUISS. In 1985 he became Director of the journal ''

Mondoperaio ''Mondoperaio'' is an Italian cultural-political journal that is based in Rome, Italy. The magazine has a socialist stance. History and Overview The magazine began on 4 December 1948 as ''Mondo Operaio'', on the initiative of the former Italian ...

''.

Political career

Pellicani was a collaborator of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Socialism, socialist and later Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the l ...

and then the Italian Democratic Socialists. In 2006 he was a candidate for the Italian senate for the Rose in the Fist coalition of parties.

Publications

His essay "The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity" was translated to English and published by Telos Press in 1994. "Revolutionary Apocalypse: Ideological Roots of Terrorism" was published by Praeger in 2003.

References

1939 births 2020 deaths People from Ruvo di Puglia Italian sociologists Italian journalists Italian male journalists Italian educators {{Italy-sociologist-stub