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362The Debate on Constitutional Courts and Their Authority between Legal and Political ConstitutionalismPhilosophica Critica 2 (2): 47-70. 2016.The paper is focused on the criticisms that theorists of political constitutionalism raise against legal constitutionalism, especially with regard to the idea of representation and political sovereignty. At the same time, the intention is to reconstruct the debate between legal and political constitutionalism in contemporary liberalism, starting from the so-called counter-majoritarian difficulty. This debate concerns two different approaches: the political one rejects the idea of judicial review…Read more
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65This contribution aims at discussing constitutional democracy in the age of populisms, by explaining how populist movements oppose liberal-democratic constitutionalism and by presenting the thesis of a so-called ‘populist constitutionalism’, as proposed by Mark Tushnet. In the first section, a general and analytic exploration of populist phenomena will be drawn, by focusing on the so-called thesis of a ‘populist’ constitutionalism. In the second part, Tushnet’s arguments for a populist constitut…Read more
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57Normativism and realism within contemporary democratic constitutionalismPhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (6): 1-21. 2018.The renewed interest on political realism can offer a new reading of the traditional dichotomy between normative and realist conception of constitutionalism. The purpose of this article is to analyse this renewed discussion, especially by focusing on the relationship between “political realism” and “political constitutionalism,” in the light of some theorists and authors—such as Richard Bellamy and Jeremy Waldron. After a brief introduction in which political realism will be discussed, especiall…Read more
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34Theory of Sovereignty and the Body Politic in Modern and Contemporary Political ThoughtPhilosophica Critica 4 (1): 3-19. 2018.The purpose of this article is to investigate one of the most interesting and debated issues within the philosophical dis-cussion about politics: the metaphor of the body politic and its relation with the theory of sovereignty in contemporary political theory. After an opening section, which proposes a brief sketch about the origin of the body politic within phi-losophy (especially in Plato’s and Aristotle’s contributions), the article provides a theoretical insight of such a theory, by dealing …Read more
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20Constitutional Democracy in the Age of Populisms: A Commentary to Mark Tushnet’s Populist Constitutional LawRes Publica 26 (3): 433-449. 2020.This contribution aims at discussing constitutional democracy in the age of populisms, by explaining how populist movements oppose liberal-democratic constitutionalism and by presenting the thesis of a so-called ‘populist constitutionalism’, as proposed by Mark Tushnet. In the first section, a general and analytic exploration of populist phenomena will be drawn, by focusing on the so-called thesis of a ‘populist’ constitutionalism. In the second part, Tushnet’s arguments for a populist constitut…Read more
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17On law, power and violence: from Christoph Menke to Hannah Arendt. A critical analysisPhilosophy Kitchen 4 (7): 33-42. 2017.This article wants to propose some reflections on law, power and violence in contemporary political philosophy. My attention will be devoted to a critical analysis of some relevant contribution on these matters by prominent scholars and authors such as Alessandro Ferrara, Christoph Menke, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt. The first part is dedicated to a brief introduction in which the Alessandro Ferrara’s reading of Menke’s Law and Violence will be presented. The second part focuses its attention…Read more
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16Teorie della democrazia, costituzionalismo e ruolo delle Corti Una riflessione teoricaPolitica & Società: Periodico di filosofia politica e studi sociali 1 (1): 115-146. 2019.This article deals with democratic constitutionalism in order to investigate the proper nature of constitutionalism, by wondering about its peculiarities and specific objects. Against this background, this essay aims at providing a paradigmatic definition of constitutional theory, for more specifically exploring its different undertones. For this reason, the first section of the article offers an analysis of the most relevant theoretical contributions within modern and contemporary constitutiona…Read more
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14Tra Washinton e Westminster. Modelli di costituzionalismo democratico a confrontoMimesis Edizioni. 2020.Il libro intende fornire una ricostruzione dettagliata del dibattito, oggi centrale all’interno della teoria politica e democratica, tra due modelli costituzionali speculari: da un lato il cosiddetto “modello Washington”, che ricalca il sistema istituzionale degli Stati Uniti, dall’altro il “modello Westminster”, che invece descrive l’ordinamento britannico. Il libro ricostruisce il panorama liberal-democratico, discutendo i temi chiave di alcuni tra i maggiori teorici del costituzionalismo cont…Read more
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10What does populism mean for democracy? Populist practice, democracy and constitutionalismEthics and Global Politics 16 (4): 1-14. 2023.Over the last 30 years, scholarship has produced countless books, essays, and articles on populism by investigating it from various perspectives and angles. This article seeks to contribute to this ongoing debate by offering a political-philosophical reconstruction of populism to define such a phenomenon from a multilateral perspective. The essay will proceed as follows: The first section will investigate populism from a purely political-philosophical position, while the second will discuss the …Read more
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8Per una definizione populista della democrazia costituzionaleSocietà Degli Individui 66 140-146. 2020.
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1Tushnet, MarkIn Mortimer Sellers & Stephan Kirste (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. pp. 1-4. 2019.
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1Political Discourse and Reasonable Disagreement - What Constitutionalism SuggestsIn Dejana M. Vukasovic & Petar Matic (eds.), Diskurs I Politika - Discourse and Politics, . pp. 99-121. 2019.Reasonable disagreement is one of the most critical issues in contemporary political philosophy, especially within liberal-democratic constitutionalism. In emphasising the role of disagreement in the relationship between discourse and politics, many scholars such as Jeremy Waldron and Richard Bellamy – against the background of the Rawlsian idea of “reasonable pluralism” – defend the thesis of moral disagreement as the core of political deliberation. By refusing the idea of neutrality, these aut…Read more
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Il tempo della costituzione: tra conservazione e progresso" "2019 TEMPO, VOL. II, - Atti del IX convegno interdisciplinare dei dottorandi e dottori di ricerca 2017In Tiziano Gasbarro & Danilo Testa (eds.), TEMPO, VOL. II, - Atti del IX convegno interdisciplinare dei dottorandi e dottori di ricerca 2017. pp. 219-231. 2019.
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The Persistence of Justice as Fairness. Reflections on Rawls's Legacy (edited book)UniversItalia. 2022.
Valerio Fabbrizi
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Istituto Italiano Per Gli Studi Filosofici
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Istituto Italiano Per Gli Studi FilosoficiPost-doctoral Fellow (Part-time)
Università degli Studi
PhD, 2017
Italy