Paolo Favilli is retired Professor of Contemporary History and the Theory of Historical Research at Genoa University, Italy, where he is also former Director of the Department of Humanistic Studies. His main research focus is the history of Marxism, to which he has devoted numerous essays and volumes, including Il socialismo italiano e la teoria economica di Marx (1892-1902) (1980), Herausgabe und Verbreitung del Werke von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels in Italien (1988), Storia del marxismo italiano.
Dalle origini alla grande guerra (1996), Marxismo e storia.
Saggio sull'innovazione storiografica in Italia (2006), and Il marxismo e le sue storie (2016). His latest study, A proposito de «Il capitale»..., Il lungo presente e I miei studenti. Corso di storia contemporanea will be released in 2021.

Introduction

The History of Marxism and the Use of "Objectivating Methodology" in the "Present Moment"

Chapter One

"Historiographical Marxism": Preliminary Questions

Chapter Two

Long-term Routes, Underground routes

Chapter Three

Delio Cantimori, A Problematic Lesson in Marxism

Chapter Four

Italy, Europe, A Shared Innovating Tension

Chapter Five

Programme for the "new" history

Chapter Six

Economic History as Social History

Chapter Seven

The History of Capitalism

Conclusion