Alessandro Volpi

“As an Unidentified Star to a Pilot”? Reclaiming the Common Good for Liberal Democracy.

Alessandro Volpi

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The normative loop at the heart of sovereignty: Public authority, legitimacy and the common good

Alessandro Volpi

The concept of sovereignty is often confined to power-centric, state-bound aspects of politics, leaving its normative dimension under-theorised. This article argues that sovereignty cannot be treated as a normatively inert notion, nor reduced to the nation-state. It offers a revised, historically grounded …

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Legal and Political Constitutionalism from Schmitt and Kelsen to Contemporary Debates: Notes on Constitutional Guardianship and Democracy

Alessandro Volpi

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The normative loop at the heart of sovereignty: Public authority, legitimacy and the common good

Alessandro Volpi

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Reasonableness: Old Virtue for a New Era: Guest Editor’s Preface

Benedetta Giovanola, Roberta Sala, Alessandro Volpi

Reasonableness: Old Virtue for a New Era. Guest Editors' Preface

Benedetta Giovanola, Roberta Sala, Alessandro Volpi

This special issue examines how the Rawlsian notion of reasonableness is strained by the epistemic and technological dynamics of digital democracy. Digital environments, defined by features such as echo chambers, misinformation, and fragmented public discourse, foster increasingly superficial and reactive forms of …

History, Markets, and Revolutions: Reviewing Foucault’s Contribution to the Analysis of Political Temporality

Alessandro Volpi, Alessio Porrino

ABSTRACT: This article explores the Foucauldian analysis of the linkage between temporality and politics, addressing mainly two loci of Foucault’s production: the assessment of the post-WWII ordoliberal experience in The Birth of Biopolitics and the Iran reportage for “Corriere Della Sera”. The …

Climate Activism, Sovereignty, and the Role of States: Envisioning Post-Liberal Climate Governance

Alessandro Volpi

This paper examines the relationship between climate movements and states in climate governance, suggesting that movements may improve their political output by adopting a sovereignty-based, democratic framing of their agenda.The ambivalent attitude of climate movements and Green Deal supporters concerning the desired …

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Beyond Neoliberal Presentism: An Eco-Temporality for the Anthropocene

Alessandro Volpi, Agostino Cera

Abstract: In this paper, we examine the relationship between neoliberal presentist temporality and the climate-environmental crisis, arguing for the necessity of envisioning a new “eco-temporality”. The deconstruction of the modern concept of progress in postmodern thought and postcolonial studies is considered, making …

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E. Laclau, Dibattiti e scontri: per un nuovo orizzonte della politica, a cura di F. M. Cacciatore e S. Mazzolini, Mimesis 2020

Alessandro Volpi

La traduzione italiana di Debates y Combates di Ernesto Laclau (Dibattiti e scontri: per un nuovo orizzonte della politica, a cura di Fortunato M. Cacciatore e Samuele Mazzolini, Milano-Udine: Mimesis, 2020) riunisce una serie di saggi dell’autore che si trovavano, tanto nell’originale …

L’anno della svolta: la politica, i concerti, i festival nel 1980

Alessandro Volpi

Nel 1980, dopo un decennio caratterizzato da letture fortemente ideologiche dei fenomeni musicali, tornarono in Italia i grandi concerti. Si trattava di un cambiamento dettato, e organizzato, dai principali partiti italiani che manifestavano la ferma intenzione di accettare la capacità degli interpreti …

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L’orologio e il calendario

Alessio Porrino, Alessandro Volpi

This article aims at reflecting on the political significance of distinct conceptions of temporality and their symbolic representation in the work of Walter Benjamin. In particular, the “clock” and the “calendar” will be addressed as symbols of, respectively, a linear and homogeneous …

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