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Caffè Europa
On-line journal of European culture and informed democracy
Reset
A month of ideas.
Giancarlo Bosetti Editor-in-chief
Reset Dialogues on Civilizations
The web magazine for all the tribes of the world
the web magazine for all the tribes of the world
ISTANBUL 2008 FILES
Friday, 22 May 2009

Alessandro Ferrara

Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and President of the Italian Association of Political Philosophy.


Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and President of the Italian Association of Political Philosophy. He studied philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley and at the J.W.Goethe Universität of Frankfurt. Over the past few years he has investigated the sources and justifications of normativity after the linguistic turn and has worked at outlining an authenticity view of validity as well as a judgment view of justice in the domain of political philosophy. He is the author of Modernity and Authenticity. A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reflective Authenticity. Rethinking the Project of Modernity and Justice and Judgment. The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy. The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment. He is a member of Reset DoC and the scientific committee of Istanbul Seminars.
 

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