The Moro Morality Play

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Event and Epistemology
The Social Drama
The Significance of Social Hermeneutics
Organization of the Book
2. Italy 1978
The Protagonists
Legitimation Crisis
3. Breach: The Country in the Streets
The Critical Event
Definition
Defense
4. Crisis: Recognition and Negotiation
The Protagonists Claim Their Positions
The Significance of Negotiation as an Exchange Activity
Varieties of Recognition
Conclusion
5. Redress: Elaboration of Symbolic Power
Terminology
The Root Paradigms
Unpacking the Root Paradigms
Conclusion
6. Reconciliation or Schism: Theory
The Authority of Authorship
The Final Act
A Case of Structural Convergence
Moro’s Career
Moro Public and Moro Private
A Precedent for Expulsion
The Need for Purification
Moro’s Moral Passage
Aesthetic Imperatives
7. The Praxis of Reconciliation and the Praxis of Schism
Symmetrical Trials
Trial in Torino
The Trial in the People’s Prison
The Interpretation of Evidence
Performance and Competence
The Letters as Evidence
The Benign Interpretation
The Family as Plaintiff
8. Conclusion
The Model of Ritual
Ritual and Theater
Tragedy versus Melodrama
Heroes and Villains
Cauterization: Police Powers and Maximalist Appeals
Modes of Mediation
Appendix: Documents of the Drama
Notes
Bibliography
Index