Alessandro Ferrara
Alessandro Ferrara is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and President of the Italian Association of Political Philosophy.
He studied philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley and at the J.W.Goethe Universität of Frankfurt. Over the past few years he has investigated the sources and justifications of normativity after the linguistic turn and has worked at outlining an authenticity view of validity as well as a judgment view of justice in the domain of political philosophy. He is the author of Modernity and Authenticity. A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1993), Reflective Authenticity. Rethinking the Project of Modernity (London & New York, Routledge, 1998) and Justice and Judgment. The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy (London, Sage, 1999). He has recently guest-edited a special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism on The Uses of Judgment (2008, Volume 34, 1-2) and completed a new volume: The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment (New York, Columbia University Press, 2008).
16 Mar 2008
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