• Il liberalismo etnocentrico di Richard Rorty
    Rivista di Filosofia 82 (3): 399-425. 1991.
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    Democracy and Populism
    Constellations 5 (1): 110-124. 1998.
  •  15
    An Alternative Modernity
    In Ben Eggleston, Dale Miller & David Weinstein (eds.), John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life, Oxford University Press. pp. 236. 2010.
  •  12
    La memoria è nel presente: lontananza e identità
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 23 (2): 393-410. 2010.
  • Gabriella Turnaturi, Tradimenti. L'imprevedibilità nelle relazioni umane (review)
    la Società Degli Individui 11. 2001.
  •  64
    Unpolitical Democracy
    Political Theory 38 (1): 65-92. 2010.
    This paper analyzes critically the appeal the unpolitical is enjoying among contemporary political philosophers who are democracy's friends. Unlike a radical critique of democracy, what I propose to call "criticism from within," takes the form of dissatisfaction with the erosion of an independent mind and impartial judgment per effect of the partisan character of democratic politics. This paper proposes three main criticisms of the actual trend toward unpolitical views of democracy: the first po…Read more
  •  25
    Can cosmopolitical Democracy be Democratic?
    In Daniele Archibugi & Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (eds.), Debating cosmopolitics, Verso. pp. 67--85. 2003.
  •  88
    Sismonde de Sismondi's aristocratic republicanism
    European Journal of Political Theory 12 (2): 153-174. 2013.
    This article shows through Sismonde de Sismondi’s work how peculiarly modern issues like the revolution, equal political rights (universal suffrage) and an industrial and commercial society contributed to renewing the identity of republicanism. That renewal took place in Europe, after the French Revolution, and in a direct confrontation with democracy rather than liberalism. The problem in relation to which Sismondi reflected on the institutions of political liberty, the republican constitution …Read more
  • Società e solitudine
    with Ralpho Emerson
    la Società Degli Individui 5. 1999.
  •  42
    Politics as Deferred Presence
    Constellations 14 (2): 266-272. 2007.
  • Lucifero e l'acqua santa. Una discussione fiorentina su The Subjection of Women
    Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 8 (2): 250-273. 1988.
  •  28
    Il pensiero populista
    Società Degli Individui 52 47-62. 2015.
  •  33
    A Criticism of Intellectual Critics
    Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 1 69. 2002.
  •  35
    Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy
    University of Chicago Press. 2006.
    It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate mode of democratic decision making—and not just a pragmatic second choice when di…Read more
  •  75
    Redirecting attention to Mill as a political thinker, Nadia Urbinati argues that this claim misrepresents Mill's thinking.
  • Lucifer and holy-water-a florentine discussion on the subjection of women
    Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 8 (2): 250-273. 1988.
  • Introduction
    with Alex Zakaras
    In Nadia Urbinati & Alex Zakaras (eds.), J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
  • Carlo Cattaneo, un contemporaneo di John Stuart Mill
    Rivista di Filosofia 81 (2): 211-236. 1990.
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    Condorcet: Political Writings (edited book)
    with Steven Lukes
    Cambridge University Press. 2012.
    Nicolas de Condorcet, the innovating founder of mathematical thinking in politics, was the last great philosophe of the French Enlightenment and a central figure in the early years of the French Revolution. His political writings give a compelling vision of human progress across world history and express the hopes of that time in the future perfectibility of man. This volume contains a revised translation of 'The Sketch', written while in hiding from the Jacobin Terror, together with lesser-know…Read more
  •  134
    Procedural Democracy, the Bulwark of Equal Liberty
    with Maria Paula Saffon
    Political Theory 41 (3): 0090591713476872. 2013.
    This essay reclaims a political proceduralist vision of democracy as the best normative defense of democracy in contemporary politics. We distinguish this vision from three main approaches that are representative in the current academic debate: the epistemic conception of democracy as a process of truth seeking; the populist defense of democracy as a mobilizing politics that defies procedures; and the classical minimalist or Schumpeterian definition of democracy as a competitive method for selec…Read more
  • La filosofia civile di Pasquale Villari
    Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 9 (3): 369-402. 1989.
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    J.S. Mill's political thought: a bicentennial reassessment (edited book)
    with Alex Zakaras
    Cambridge University Press. 2007.
    The year 2006 marked the two hundredth anniversary of John Stuart Mill's birth. Though his philosophical reputation has varied greatly, it is now clear that Mill ranks among the most influential modern political thinkers. Despite his enduring influence, the breadth and complexity of Mill's political thought is often underappreciated. While his writings remain a touchstone for debates over liberty and liberalism, many other important dimensions of his political philosophy have until recently been…Read more