Politcal Philosophy
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A review of Nicholas Buccola's book, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty, published in The Review of Politics (Univ. of Notre Dame).
I. Economic liberalism and global unipolarity
II. Globalization, the "End of Democracy" and the question of uniformity
III. The "metaphysics" of globalization
IV. Conclusion
Bibliography
II. Globalization, the "End of Democracy" and the question of uniformity
III. The "metaphysics" of globalization
IV. Conclusion
Bibliography
Meditation and the political are often seen as two completely distinct fields of interest. However, it is more and more often assumed that religion and politics are in fact much related. Is meditation also political? In this essay, I... more
Rationalism refers to a mode of theorizing that sees in universal reason the right tool to apprehend politics. It affirms that everything needs to be grounded in reason and it is optimistic that reason has the power to set all social and... more
In this article, we will examine the Kant's approach to disobedience with Kant's ideas about the structure of political authority and the relation between political authority and citizen in Kant's political philosophy. Within this scope,... more
Resenha da obra Filosofia Política de Will Kymlicka.
The goal of this article was to present the research subject of political science as a fuzzy set of cognitive elements, which is a blurred area of theoretical political research with a margin of indeterminacy. It is an area, where... more
Agridopoulos, Aristotelis (2018): Das anteillose Volk gegen die soziale Hierarchisierung. Zur an-archischen und egalitären Logik im Denken Rancières, in: Thomas Linpinsel und Il-Tschung Lim (Hg.): Jacques Rancière und die... more
"INDEX: INTRODUCTION Ch.1 WHO IS A POSTCAPITALIST? Ch.2 IS POSTCAPITALISM A DICTATORSHIP? Ch.3 WHO WANTS A COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP? Ch.4 ON VIOLENCE Ch.5 ON MASS MEDIA, POLITICS, NGOs AND... more
La presente contribución plantea una ontología del mal en la Tierra a partir de Laudato Sì', carta pastoral del Obispo de Roma. El extremo humanismo secular del documento del Papa, así como sus involuntarios alcances filosóficos, sirven... more
Come già lasciava intendere una lettera a Fritz Mauthner, secondo Landauer, «la rivoluzione non è ciò che credono i rivoluzionari». Il suo scritto non è infatti, come il titolo potrebbe suggerire, un pamphlet agitatorio: al contrario,... more
This paper reflects on the tension between institutional and argumentation theoretical norms for reasonable argumentative behaviour. It is a commentary on Menno Reijven's paper "Institutional and institutionalized fallacies" delivered at... more
In this paper I will explore the interactions between lobbies and the State. I will look in these field using three different areas: I will compare the democratic processes and the lobbies ones; I will explain how the resources are a... more
Se rastrea los usos que Schmitt hace de la noción de comunidad. Partiendo de Teoría de la constitución (1928), se pondera la influencia del par comunidad/sociedad de Ferdinand Tönnies en Schmitt, al tiempo que se identifica la... more
A major premise frames the most normative arguments of the Republic: the characters of men are the cause of the characters of poleis. The government of Kallipolis is the best of all, explains Socrates, for a very simple reason: it is the... more
«To purge the spirits of that people». Metaphors of political and religious bond in Machiavelli The metaphor of the humors in Machiavelli has been the subject of an important number of studies. Essentially concentrated on his major... more
This paper aims to present, examine and compare the positions taken by John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas about the translation and inclusion of religious content in the political public sphere (politische Öffentlichkeit) of post-secular... more
My chapter on "Revolution" in Keywords for Radicals (AK Press, 2016).
This paper analyzes Tocqueville's comments on Mexico within his work "Democracy in America" Tocqueville was wrong in assuming only corruption was responsible for Mexico's democratic downfall, and did not put enough emphasis on other... more
En discusiones sobre filosofía política contemporánea se reiteran una serie de lugares comunes en torno al pensamiento de Rancière que neutralizan la potencia de sus apuestas. Me refiero, en particular, a una comprensión dicotómica de la... more
Introdução ao livro "Porquê a Guerra?" (correspondência entre Einstein e Freud); Lisboa: Cultura Editora, 2017.