Resumen de The City as Ideal Principle of History According to Carlo Cattaneo
For Cattaneo no European is a native of Europe because civilization springs from the contamination between different cultures. Accordingto Cattaneo, agriculture is an act of civilization that has transformed theland into an “agricultural machine”, within which the territory must be perceived as a collective work heritage, determined by the overlapping of the results achieved by the different generations. Within this context, cities canand must be considered as ideal principles that clearly differentiate Asiancities from European and Western ones. Speaking, in particular, of Italiancities, Cattaneo underlines the historical role of Italian municipalities forthe genesis of modern science which created the historical-social premisesfor the construction of our own contemporary modernity.
