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Author-Name: Tommaso Redolfi Riva 
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Author-Workplace-Name: Dottore di ricerca in Storia delle dottrine economiche - Università di Firenze
Title: La nozione di formazione economico-sociale nel marxismo di Emilio Sereni 
(The notion of economic formation of society in Emilio Sereni's marxism)
Abstract: The article focuses on the notion of economic formation of society, as it has been conceived in Emilio
Sereni’s Marxism. We analyse Sereni’s essay written in 1970, in which we discern the outlines of its
definition and its distinction from the category of mode of production. We linger over the conceptualization
of superstructural and genetic moment and over the controversy with Luporini’s Marxism
of the forms. Then we try to understand the function that the notion of economic formation of society
plays in Sereni’s historiographic and political work. Finally, we show how the notion of economic
formation of society, as it has been developed by Sereni, can be brought back to the theoretic
and political project of the Italian Marxist historicism
Classification-JEL: B24
Keywords: storicismo marxista; marxismo italiano; formazione economico-sociale 
(Marxist historicism; Italian Marxism; economic formation of society)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 111-124
Volume: 17
Issue: 1
Year: 2009
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=200906301&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:17:y:2009:1:6:p:111-124