Search results for " Democracy"

Spiegare o mentire? Due vie della comunicazione politica in Tucidide

2021

Chosen as word of the year in 2016 by the Oxford Dictionaries, post-truth is a very recent neologism, spread on the wave of recent political events (particularly Brexit and Trump's election in 2016). What I would like to emphasise here is that post-truth, along with fake-news, refers to issues that are by no means new nor exclusively linked to modernity. I am referring in particular to the debate in ancient Greece on the relationship between truth and lies in political action and the relationship between 'fact' and the discourse that represents it (i.e. between ergon and logos).

Discorso e conflitto. Un'ermeneutica dello spazio pubblico

2016

The essay proposes a democratic interpretation about the social space. It approaches it from an hermeneutics point of view linked to the paradigm of intersubjectivity (taking into account authors such as: Apel, Habermas, Honneth, Taylor, etc.). Therefore, it exploits the “ theory of recognition” both on a practical level, both theoretically. Against this background "the public reason" has an epistemological dominant role.

Building Consensus. An introduction to a rhetorical approach

2016

The contemporary debate on democracy shows two points of view: the “deliberative” one and the “agonistic” one. The first one is related to the classical tradition that considers Habermas as its reference point. It emphasizes the role of rational deliberation as a means to produce a legitimate and binding consensus. In contrast, the second one draws its inspiration from C. Schmitt, and considers conflict and disagreement as unavoidable conditions of democratic life. Despite their obvious differences, these two theoretical models have a conception of rhetoric in common that is subjected to, or at least excluded from, the full exercise of argumentative rationality. We propose an interpretation…

Secular Religion as a Tool for the Realization of Democratic Citizenship. The Thesis of John Dewey (1859-1952)

2021

This contribution aims to propose a critical reflection on a particularly complex theme for international pedagogical literature: religion. This will be done through a constant dialogue with John Dewey, a philosopher and pedagogist of American origin who, in addition to having dedicated himself to philosophical, political and pedagogical issues, has had interesting reflections on the religious phenomenon. Therefore, attention will be turned to such of his writings as Moral Theory and Practice of 1891, in which Dewey treated the religious question implicitly, wondering about human conduct and the need for it to be oriented by a morality that directed the individual towards the exercise of th…

Comunità

2022

This volume questions the community both as an increasingly emerging educational need in the post-modern societies, and as a human and universal vocation. To clarify the current oblivion of the sense of a community ethic, that especially distinguishes the new generations, educational practices and pedagogical theories are reconstructed that, throughout history, have favored a community tone. Finally, the gaze is turned to those educational challenges that today it is not possible to ignore in view of the formation of a community citizenship: individualism, materialism, virtual realities, multiculturalism. These are some tendencies that orient young people towards lonely lifestyles and that …

Da Pistoia a Palermo. Giuseppe Toniolo e l’avvio della ‘Settimana sociale dei cattolici italiani’

2014

The article focuses on the double role of Giuseppe Toniolo as economist and promoter of the Catholic movement, dealing with one of his successful initiatives: ‘La Settimana sociale dei cattolici italiani’. The essay describes the project that aimed to popularize the Catholic social doctrine and that during its first years (1907-1908) resulted in three great meetings held in Pistoia, Brescia and Palermo. These events, that required a lot of work to Toniolo as scholar and leader of Catholic associations, met a great number of obstacles of political nature and, also of intellectual, doctrinal and regional origin.

Alexis de Tocqueville e l'inquietudine democratica

2020

Il mio contributo intende mostrare come la "nuova scienza della politica" , esposta nella Democrazia in America, offra un impianto categoriale ancora oggi assai utile nell'analisi della genesi e dello sviluppo della "democrazia" moderna, anto nei suoi aspetti positivi quanto nei suoi possibili sviluppi patologici.

LA FONDAZIONE DELLA POLITICA : dalla mitologia divina all’immaginario politico nella classicità greca

2020

Politics is born in Athens, Vth century B.C. The contributors in this volume analyzes its emergence developing many itineraries from myth, gods and political imaginery of demos and polis.

Epistemic Turn or Democratic U-Turn? On the Tension between Philosophical Reasoning and Political Action in Deliberative Democracy

2012

Introduction: A Topographical Approach to Deliberative Democracy

2018

Started as an attempt to move beyond the models of democracy which dominated public and academic discourses during les trente glorieuses (i.e. procedural, aggregative and participatory models of democracy), the deliberative turn seems to have be the opening of several other inner turnings which have help build up a complex theoretical spaghetti junction. Following the main deliberative turn we can also count an 'epistemic turn' (Jörke 2010), and 'empirical turn' (Thompson 2008), a 'systemic turn' (Mansbridge et. al. 2012) and even a 'democratic turn' (Barker et. al. 2012). The end result of these twists and turns is a plurality of models of deliberative democracy (DD) embodying many of the …