Power and Democracy
Not a member yet
53 research outputs found
Sort by
Costruzioni dell’‘identità europea’: la paneuropa di Coudenhove-Kalergi
No full textIn this article a brief reconstruction of the movement known as Paneuropa and founded by Richard Nikolaus Eijiro Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi is offered, at the aim to show that it may contribute to contemporary academic and public discourses on the notion of “European identity”. As a matter of fact, some basic ideas underlying this specific cultural and political project, though of course to be read in the light of the historical situation and the intellectual discourses of the interwar period, are still to be found in today’s mainstream understandings of the notion of ‘European identity’ and the cultural and political projects they give birth to
Considerazioni epistemologiche sul “confine” tra “società aperta” e “società chiusa”
No full textoai:ojs2.ojs.aduei.com:article/7The essay defines the Open Society, according to Popperian teaching, as a genuinely free model of coexistence because it is pluralist and organized according to the democratic rules of political dialectics and checks-and-balances mechanisms. The foundation of a society of free individuals is the principle of epistemological fallibilism which, if defended, constitutes an embankment against any totalitarian, corporatist and massifying drift
L’ “interpretative turn” in economia: Spiegare e interpretare i fatti economici
No full textLachmann and D. Lavoie are the main exponents of “interpretative economics”, which proposed a “hermeneutical turn” for the economics, as an alternative to the “scientism” and the “positivism” of neoclassical economics, accused of having reduced individuals to anonymous and abstract maximizers of utility, detached from the lifeword. In this essay the theses of these two economists are examined, on the one hand, highlighting how recourse to hermeneutics can improve the epistemological statute of economic science, on the other hand, making some criticisms of their thesis ac-cording to this method would represent an alternative to the nomological-deductive explanation