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33A Criticism of Intellectual CriticsLogos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 1 69. 2002.
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35Representative Democracy: Principles and GenealogyUniversity 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
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75Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative GovernmentUniversity of Chicago Press. 2002.Redirecting attention to Mill as a political thinker, Nadia Urbinati argues that this claim misrepresents Mill's thinking.
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Lucifer and holy-water-a florentine discussion on the subjection of womenGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 8 (2): 250-273. 1988.
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IntroductionIn Nadia Urbinati & Alex Zakaras (eds.), J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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9Condorcet: Political Writings (edited book)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
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134Procedural Democracy, the Bulwark of Equal LibertyPolitical 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
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La filosofia civile di Pasquale VillariGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 9 (3): 369-402. 1989.
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8J.S. Mill's political thought: a bicentennial reassessment (edited book)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
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The many heads of the hydra : J.S. Mill on despotismIn Nadia Urbinati & Alex Zakaras (eds.), J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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27Regimes of Memory: Distance, Identity and the Liberty of the CitizenIris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 3 (5): 141-157. 2011.The theoretical interpretations of liberalism in its relations to multiculturalism occupy a central role in contemporary political theory. Yet, although arguments of rights and equal respect have provided for reasonable justifications of cultural diversity, daily papers and political columns give us an image of democratic societies that is often intolerant, exclusionary and insensitive to the argument of rights when faced with cultural and religious pluralism. The diachronic rhythm between intel…Read more
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6Nella nuova Italia gli interpreti e i difensori delle civili libertà (l'espressione è di Romagnosi) furono pochi e poco considerati. Tra essi, gli amici e i seguaci radicali e federalisti di Carlo Cattaneo, ma anche un moderato come Pasquale Villari, il maestro di Gaetano Salvemini. Tutti ebbero in comune la condivisione del pensiero filosofico e politico di John Stuart Mill e il proposito di favorirne la diffusione nella cultura del loro tempo. Mill fu uno degli autori più tradotti nell'Italia …Read more
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20Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics (review)Review of Metaphysics 58 (1): 200-202. 2004.In this elegantly written book, Nicholas White takes on the interesting and timely task of discussing and questioning the myth of “the Greek way” of thinking about ethics fabricated by modern philosophers since the end of the eighteenth century. As the author says in the introduction, this is a preparatory work to a history of Greek ethics, rather than a full-fledged history of Greek ethics or a study of the reception and the uses of Greek ethics in modern philosophy. The “Greek way” of thinking…Read more
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57Condorcet’s Democratic Theory of Representative GovernmentEuropean Journal of Political Theory 3 (1): 53-75. 2004.The basic theoretical premise of this article is that representation does not necessarily imply a break with democratic principles. Its goal is to challenge the traditional liberal-elitist approach to representative government according to which this system is a mixed regime that is not identifiable with democracy since its main institution, election, is a mechanism that is inherently aristocratic, although it can be implemented in a democratic way. I question this powerful argument by questioni…Read more
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The civil philosophy of villari, PasqualeGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 9 (3): 369-402. 1989.
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1An alternative modernity : Mill on capitalism and the quality of lifeIn Ben Eggleston, Dale Miller & David Weinstein (eds.), John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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80Laïcité in reverse: Mono-religious democracies and the issue of religion in the public sphereConstellations 17 (1): 4-21. 2010.
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22J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment (edited book)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
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The return to community in contemporary american philosophyGiornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 12 (3): 518-535. 1992.
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58Continuity and Rupture:The Power of Judgment in Democratic RepresentationConstellations 12 (2): 194-222. 2005.
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21PostscriptCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 19 (3): 376-382. 2016.
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2Libertà e buon governo in John Stuart Mill e Pasquale VillariEuropean University Institute. 1987.
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