RISULTATI RICERCA

Hegemony in Benedetto Croce’s Works and Gramscian Theory ABSTRACT: This essay reconstructs the usage of the term «hegemony» in Benedetto Croce’s works, stressing that it’s main feature is the strategy of containment of the « pratical-vital » by ethics and thought. This led to a culturally and philosofically monistic vision, which was different, from a political point of view, from Gentile’s, as it depended on the civil society to be put into practice, and not on an authoritarian state. The role played by the Gramscian theory of hegemony is analyzed, emphasizing the connection between coercion and consensus which was one of its key features.

Maurras’ Theory of the Four Stages ABSTRACT: In this article the author tries to illustrate how Charles Maurras, the leader of French integral nationalism, interlaces Nationalism, Positivism, Federalism, and Catholicism in order to ground his own reactionary thought. By defining «Anti-France» the conjunction of « four confederate states of Protestants, Jews, Freemasons and foreigners (métèques) », he develops the idea that only monarchy could provide France with a symbol of continuity and statehood. It would be decentralized against métèques, who rule the central republican institutions for helping each other; hereditary against Jews, who menace the purity of French blood; traditional against Protestants, who overwhelm France with a non-Latin culture; anti-Parliamentary against Freemasons, who control almost all the newspapers. Hence, Maurras draws his conclusion that France does need an absolute monarchy against its « internal foreigners ».

Deliberating, Negotiating, and Arguing over the Uncertain Destiny of Hume’s Law. Review of a Recent Congress ABSTRACT: This critical note presents an assessment of some theoretical frameworks concerning, first and foremost, the threefold model of argumentation, negotiation and dialogue. The author discusses whether it is possible to bargain over beliefs, following the proposal of Raùl Calvo at the recent XIII Italian-Spanish congress for analytical philosophy of law. Moreover, Mindus takes into account the current debate on Hilary Putnam’s The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and the thesis of so-called entangled objects in law, by discussing the critical outlook offered by José Juan Moreso and Gaetano Carcaterra.

Pluralism and associative life: The groups theory of politics and its primary labels ABSTRACT: This article argues that the enduring lack of consensus on a very basic «unity of analysis » in the social sciences is highly dependent on the socio-political diversification of the associative life. In order to found this historically and theoretical notion, this essay explores the closer relationship between social policy and social sciences from his emergence in the German tradition of the « Cameralists », through its transformations in the late 19th century during the period of « methods controversy » (Methodenstreit), up to the contemporary groups theory as a crucial focus of investigation in sociology and political science. The core proposition in this article is that analytical diversification, topical specialization, and theoretical progress of existing disciplines cover different types of associative life in the field delineated by the pluralist theory « label ».

Principles without Facts. Reflections on G.A. Cohen’s critique of J. Rawls ABSTRACT: In this paper, the authors challenge Cohen's view that the primary task of philosophical enquiry is to analyse purely normative concepts, such as justice, rather than the definition of substantive conceptions about which principles are just. If principles of justice are action-guiding, as Cohen maintains they are, this means they have to account for a general principle of realizability. Moreover, in order to be realizable, a theory must take general fact-dependent elements into account, like conceiving of the person endorsing that theory and conceiving of the circumstances in which moral agents find themselves. However, it is these factdependent elements that Cohen tries to rule out. If these elements were accounted for, it would remain unclear which regulatory principles Cohen's justificatory principles are supposed to justify. If justificatory principles are to justify particular regulatory principles, can they really do so without factual considerations? Can the question «what is justice?» make sense without the question «whom is justice for? »?

Turin’s Ruling Élite ABSTRACT: The transition of Turin from one-company town to a postindustrial city has been led by an urban ruling élite (ECG), whose members have been identified through a combination of positional and reputational methods. Network analysis and qualitative research on the members of the group allow to outline the élite relational structure and its social and political profile, that looks pluralistic and policentric. By selecting a core group inside the network and analysing its social and political attributes some hypotheses emerge on the urban regime and the capability of this ruling élite to act like a collective actor.