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Il potere del denaro. Oligarchie nell’età globale

The New Deal experience, later consolidated in the post-war «reformist» culture, was the most conscious expression of the need, in every democratic society, to avoid the concentration of power favored by the market. The loss of awareness of the fact that every interventionist policy in ...

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Tirannie antiche e moderne

Tyranny is a word imported into Greek vocabulary in the 7th century BCE to identify a new kind of ruler, who does not belong to a dynasty and has a great power. Tyrants started to appear in Greece in that century: sole rulers, they were ...

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Montesquieu e Khomeini. Una forma contemporanea del «dispotismo orientale»?

In the mid-eighteenth century the extraordinary success of Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws triggered a new and often critical interest in the ancient concept of Oriental Despotism. In Montesquieu’s view the despotic universe didn’t coincide with a indefinite or prevalently geographic Eastern world, but specifically ...

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Dittature. Il potere feroce

In an age characterized by the tendency to the growing hybridization between democracies and authoritarian regimes (with the coining of the neologism «democratura»), and in which, due to the spread of a culture of emergency, we have also returned to revive the concept of «constitutional ...

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Bonapartismo, oggi?

Is «Bonapartism» still an actual category of political thought? Despite its strict relationship with a particular phase of the European history (marked by Napoleon I and Napoleon III), it seems able to give us, even today, an interesting interpretive perspective of the political tendencies of ...

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Tra parlamentarismo e plebiscitarismo. La democrazia della decisione in Max Weber

The purpose of this contribution is to reconstruct the meaning of democracy and liberal democracy in Max Weber. In this perspective, the principle of legality, the constitutional guarantee of fundamental rights, representative institutions and universal suffrage are identified as the elements that define not only ...

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Demagoghi democratici. Un eterno ritorno?

This essay deals with the recurrent return of the demagogue figure in democracy, between ancient and contemporary ages. Starting from the assumption that the use of language is the main tool of democratic politics in general and of demagogic mystification in particular, the author reflects ...

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On Trumpism, or the End of American Exceptionalism

This papers uses Trumpism to illustrate populism in power. It analyses it in its rhetorical style; in its propaganda, tropes, and ideology; and finally in its aims and achievements. It shows how the representative construction of the people is rhetorical and is independent of social ...

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A crise do liberalismo político e a ascensão do liberalismo econômico e do populismo autoritário. O caso do Brasil

The hope for a democratization of international relations through a liberaldemocratic diffusion of the democratic rule of law following the fall of the Berlin Wall is now in crisis both in the older democracies and in the new governments that have left authoritarian regimes. On ...

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Un malgoverno dell’altro mondo. Corruzione, avidità e violenza all’origine dell’America latina

The article begins by reconstructing the original behavior of the conquistadores of the New World, in which the immense greed of riches was combined with ruthless violence against the Amerindians, and this was accompanied by a moral disengagement, or rather by the skill to perform ...

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La diseguaglianza degli antichi e dei moderni. Da Aristotele ai nuovi meteci

How was discrimination between citizens and non-citizens in the democratic Athens perceived and justified? The author addresses the question starting from the analysis of Aristotle’s theses. The justification for the exclusion of women, slaves and metics rests on different foundations. The subordination of women is ...

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Le diseguaglianze di Rousseau. Dal grand monde al mondo globale

This article aims at exploring the relevance of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theory of inequality for interpreting today’s world. The author analyses the so-called neoliberal ideology by adopting as theoretical tools the tensions between nature and artifice, and between equality and inequality, explored by Rousseau. In the ...

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Eguaglianza e egualitarismo, oggi (da Bobbio a Babeuf e ritorno)

In 1976 Norberto Bobbio wrote an essay called Equality and Egalitarianism that aimed at a better distinction between ideas often used as perfect synonymous. Taking Bobbio’s distinction as a starting point, Vitale faces the very different ideas of equality and inequality, focusing mainly on the ...

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Il grande «livellatore». Eguaglianza e diseguaglianza in Marx centocinquant’anni dopo

The essay deals with the theme of equality (and inequality) in Marx’s thinking by proposing two main approaches. The first, a traditional one, is historicalreconstructive and is based on young Marx’s writings regarding the issues of the State and democracy. The second approach focuses instead ...

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La forja de la igualdad

Political philosophy was deeply renovated in the last decades of the twentieth century; at the centre of this «reinassance» was the characterisation of equality as the «sovereign virtue», that is, the fundamental parameter by reference to which to pass normative judgment on social institutions and ...

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Reddito senza lavoro, lavoro senza reddito

In this paper the author focuses on the measures to combat poverty, distinguishing between in-work poverty and poverty caused by lack of work and other conditions of social fragility. As far as the first one is concerned, the author reconstructs the ongoing debate on the ...

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Argomenti internazionalistici contro il nazionalismo

Being the nation a value, a desire, an inspiration (i. e., abstract) while the state is a thing, actual and objective, the struggle for constructing a nation (a new nation), or to hold that my own nation is better than any other, cannot be connected ...

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I crimini di sistema e il futuro dell’ordine internazionale

The project of a global and international constitutional order, stipulated in the aftermath of the Second World War, is currently being challenged not only by the re-emergence of aggressive forms of populist nationalism; but, also, by the massive human rights violations caused by economic globalization ...

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Libertà, necessità e legge. Il problema teologico-politico nella polemica tra Hobbes e Bramhall

The controversy against the Anglican Archbishop John Bramhall, in which Thomas Hobbes has been engaged for more than two decades, is one of the most significant steps in the treatment of the theological-political problem by the author of the Leviathan. Focusing on the concept of ...

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Gesù e gli Apostoli nel Leviatano. Il cristianesimo delle origini tra etica e politica

This article aims to highlight the tensions linked to the Hobbesian appreciation of the first Christian communities. Several features of these communities seem to contradict the basic assumptions of Hobbes’ own theory: the absence of private property; the ability of faith in the ‘kingdom to ...

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