A large part of the existing historical research on the seventies in Italy takes the category of crisis to define the country’s situation in that decade. During the seventies Italy experienced a multifaceted systemic crisis: institutional, economic, political, cultural, social, and religious. This interpretation is convincing, however, only if the term-concept ‘crisis’ is not solely adopted in its negative connotations and the seventies are not exclusively understood as an age of darkness (and violence). Indeed, the editors of this special issue strongly emphasize the need for using the word-concept crisis in a neutral way. In other words, they think it is necessary to return to the etymology of the word and to understand crisis as the punctum dramatis of a historical process, that is, as a watershed between two different ages. Thus, the Italian seventies should be understood as representing a fracture with the past and as a moment which paved the way towards a new era. The articles published in this special issue validate the need for interpreting the ‘shock’ of the seventies as the root of Italian ‘modernity,’ that is, the root of those phenomena and processes which contributed to shape present-day Italy. The contributors deal with several ‘facets’ of the Italian seventies. Simona Colarizi provides an overview of the decade, analysing in particular the categories of movements, reforms, democracy, and transition. The article by Eugenio Capozzi focuses on the growing sentiment of hostility towards professional politicians, taking into account its origins and causes. The essay by Lorenzo Benadusi reconstructs the debate on the sexual revolution, examining especially three intellectuals: Renata Pisu and her attempt to educate people on sexual liberation; Augusto Del Noce and his denunciation of the progressive pornograficizing of society; and Pier Paolo Pasolini and his analysis of the link between hedonism and ‘erotomania.’ Paolo Mattera’s article addresses the topic of the welfare state, analysing the real amount of increase spending in the 1970s and assessing whether, and to what extent, the external factors that led to the restructuring of European welfare systems also affected Italy. Andrea Guiso’s essay deals with the tight correlation between the decline of the ‘Republic of Parties’ and the structural transformations of the global economy that occurred between the late sixties and the seventies in the spheres of JOURNAL OF MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES 2020, VOL. 25, NO. 1, 1–2 https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2020.1688567

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意大利的七十年代：追溯意大利现代性的起源

在意大利对七十年代的现有历史研究中，有很大一部分是通过危机来定义该十年来该国的局势。七十年代，意大利经历了多方面的系统性危机：体制，经济，政治，文化，社会和宗教。但是，只有当概念“危机”并非仅以其消极含义被采用并且七十年代并不专门被理解为黑暗（和暴力）时代时，这种解释才具有说服力。确实，本期特刊的编辑强烈强调有必要以中立的方式使用“概念危机”一词。换句话说，他们认为有必要回到该词的词源并将危机理解为历史过程的点状戏剧，即两个不同时代之间的分水岭。从而，意大利的七十年代应该被理解为代表着过去的断裂，是代表着迈向新时代的道路。在本期特刊上发表的文章证实，有必要将七十年代的“冲击”解释为意大利“现代性”的根源，也就是说，这些现象和过程的根源有助于塑造当今的意大利。贡献者处理了意大利七十年代的几个“方面”。西蒙娜·科拉里兹（Simona Colarizi）概述了这十年，特别分析了运动，改革，民主和过渡的类别。Eugenio Capozzi的文章着眼于敌对职业政治家的日益增长的情绪，同时考虑了其起源和成因。洛伦佐·贝纳杜西（Lorenzo Benadusi）的文章重建了关于性革命的辩论，特别是研究三位知识分子：雷纳塔·皮苏（Renata Pisu）及其对人们进行性解放教育的尝试；奥古斯托·德尔·诺斯（Augusto Del Noce）及其对社会渐进式色情化的谴责；以及Pier Paolo Pasolini及其对享乐主义与“色情狂”之间联系的分析。保罗·马特拉（Paolo Mattera）的文章探讨了福利国家的问题，分析了1970年代实际的增加支出额，并评估了导致欧洲福利体系重组的外部因素是否以及在多大程度上也影响了意大利。安德里亚·吉索（Andrea Guiso）的论文探讨了“共和国”的衰落与60世纪末至70年代在《现代意大利研究杂志2020》（VOL）中发生的全球经济结构转型之间的紧密联系。25号 1，1–2 https：