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5Coercion or Privatization? Crisis and Planned Economies in the Debates of the Early Frankfurt SchoolJus Cogens 6 (1): 7-28. 2024.The 1930s–1940s underwent profound structural economic and political turmoil following the collapse of the nineteenth century liberal market economies. The intellectual debates of the time were dominated by the question of whether Marx’s theory of the tendency of rate of profit to fall was true, or what consequence could be imagined in the survival of capitalist societies. Placed in the middle of such debates was also the reorganization of national productions into war economies. By means of rec…Read more
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2‘Political and Metaphysical’: the World Republic as a Regulative Idea of ReasonIn Camilla Serck-Hanssen & Beatrix Himmelmann (eds.), The Court of Reason: Proceedings of the 13th International Kant Congress, De Gruyter. pp. 1717-1726. 2021.
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1Engaging with Forst's "Right to Justification" : Kantian Analogies and the Problem of SubjectivityIn Ester Herlin-Karnell & Matthias Klatt (eds.), Constitutionalism Justified: Rainer Forst in Discourse, Oxford University Press, Usa. 2019.
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12The End of Globalization: Cosmopolitanism, Militancy, and the Promises of Jus CogensJus Cogens 4 (2): 91-97. 2022.
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14Why is there so much attention on Kant's global politics in present day law and philosophy? This book argues that to understand the complexities of our current legal-institutional arrangements, we first need an insight into Kant's global politics, and highlights the potential fruitfulness of Kant's cosmopolitan thought for contemporary political thinking. It adopts a double methodological strategy by reconstructing a genealogical conceptual journey showing the development of international law, a…Read more
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19The Solitude of Machiavelli’s PrincePhilosophia 50 (3): 1035-1053. 2022.In Machiavelli’s Prince there appears to be a link between Chap.IX on the civil principality and the hope for a unification of Italy by a new prince – a theme presented in the final Exhortation. In both sections, Machiavelli’s unusual lack of historical illustrations suggests the hypothesis that the civil principality and the new prince play a symbolic function. The reading here proposed argues that there is an ideal relation between Machiavelli’s Prince and the Discourses on Livy regarding the …Read more
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44Kant or not Kant? Arguing on Kant’s Ultimate Political Design for Global Governance and Cosmopolitanism. An Exchange between Claudio Corradetti and Allen WoodCon-Textos Kantianos 1 (13): 7-28. 2021.In the following reflection Claudio Corradetti and Allen Wood engage in a controversy concerning the possibilities and the limits of textual interpretation. Should an interpreter still be authorized to call an author’s interpretation the logical stretch of text beyond its black printed letters? The authors offer two different standpoints on what can still be defined as textual interpretation. Whereas for Allen Wood a clear-cut separation must be kept between what a text shows and what an interpr…Read more
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16Invited Editorial: Patient centric initiatives (PCIs) - a shift in the governance of science: Lessons from the biobanks worldResearch Ethics 9 (2): 52-54. 2013.
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10Morality and TribalismJus Cogens 3 (1): 85-98. 2021.This contribution has two main goals which might be labelled for convenience as apars construensandpars denstruensreversing the usual order of these terms. The first aim is to offer an overview of the main tenets of the book, while the second aim is to raise some critical concerns while remaining sympathetic to the author’s overall project. With regard to the first point, I present the context of intellectual debate where Buchanan’s contribution fits comfortably: Darwin’s evolutionary theory, an…Read more
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15What Makes Us Human? Evolution, Intentionality and Moral ProgressJus Cogens 3 (1): 1-10. 2021.This contribution has two main goals which might be labelled for convenience as a pars construens and pars denstruens reversing the usual order of these terms. The first aim is to offer an overview of the main tenets of the book, while the second aim is to raise some critical concerns while remaining sympathetic to the author’s overall project. With regard to the first point, I present the context of intellectual debate where Buchanan’s contribution fits comfortably: Darwin’s evolutionary theory…Read more
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5Reflecting on the EU: the Good and the Bad Times, and Those That Are Yet to ComeJus Cogens 2 (1): 1-6. 2020.
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9Hegemony Critique and the Crisis of the European UnionJus Cogens 2 (2): 139-153. 2020.In the present essay, I argue that the current EU governance reflects a contradiction between the presumption of a European constitutional framework based on human rights, democracy and the rule of law and the recently adopted economic stability governance defined outside the horizon of the EU treaties. I propose to understand this scenario through the prism of two distinct and context-specific assumptions: a political-sociological hypothesis for which internal contradictions of capitalism are t…Read more
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29Thinking with Kant "beyond" KantDanish Yearbook of Philosophy 50 59-82. 2017.In the following essay, I attempt to reactualize some of Kant’s most fundamental conceptions of a state’s sovereignty and the legitimacy of the cosmopolitan order. To this end, I provide what appears as a viable solution to Kant’s “sovereignty dilemma”; that is, the reconciliation between state sovereignty and the international enforceability of laws. I consider that a key component of the overall Kantian cosmopolitan project is the role played by the transcendental notion of an “originally unit…Read more
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13Frankfurt School and Critical TheoryInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2017.The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory The Frankfurt School, known more appropriately as Critical Theory, is a philosophical and sociological movement spread across many universities around the world. It was originally located at the Institute for Social Research, an attached institute at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. The Institute was founded … Continue reading Frankfurt School and Critical Theory →
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10The multiple identities of critical theory: A Hydra or a Proteus?Philosophy and Social Criticism 43 (3): 306-307. 2017.
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62This work provides an innovative contribution to the legal-philosophical understanding of human rights theory.
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571What Does Cultural Difference Require of Human RightsIn Cindy Holder & David Reidy (eds.), Human Rights. The Hard Questions, Cambridge University Press, . 2013.Th e contemporary right to freedom of thought together with all its further declinations into freedom of speech, religion, conscience and expression, had one of its earliest historical recognitions at the end of the Wars of Religion with the Edict of Nantes (1598). In several respects one can saythat the right to freedom of thought is virtually “co-original” with the endof the Wars of Religion. Following this thought further, one might think that human rights defi ne the boundaries of our soc…Read more
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42Theorizing Transitional Justice (edited book)Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 2015.With the common goal of clarifying some of the theoretical profiles of transitional justice strategies, the study is organized along crucial intersections evaluating aspects connected to the genealogy, the nature, the scope and the most appropriate methodology for the study of transitional justice. The specific transitional instruments of war crime tribunals, truth commissions, administrative purges, reparations, and historical commissions are considered. The book brings together some of the mos…Read more
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21Kant's Legacy and the Idea of a Transitional Jus CosmopoliticumRatio Juris 29 (1): 105-121. 2016.
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31Philosophical Dimensions of Human Rights: Some Contemporary Views (edited book)Springer. 2011.Some Contemporary Views Claudio Corradetti ... A more complete history of the relation between modern humanitarianism and human rights remains to be written, and would have to identify the points at which each arose, when they ...
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54. Can human rights be exported? On the very idea of human rights transplantabilityIn Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt (ed.), New Directions in Comparative Law, Edward Elgar. pp. 40. 2009.
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25Law and RightsIn Richard Corrigan (ed.), Ethics: A University Guide, Progressive Frontiers Pubs.. pp. 221. 2010.
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56Transitional Justice and the Truth-Constraints of the Public SpherePhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (7): 685-700. 2012.In this article I present some implications for a concept of transitional justice through the comparison of two approaches: retributive vs. restorative theories. Notwithstanding their profound differences in perspective, both models are grounded upon a strong notion of the public sphere. Accordingly, after showing why neither of the two approaches exhausts the problems of transitional justice, I will demonstrate how a ‘complete’ justification requires a certain view of public reason based upon r…Read more
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Can Human Rights be Exported? Rethinking the Relation between Human Rights and TransplantabilityIn Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt (ed.), New Directions in Comparative Law, Edward Elgar. 2009.
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