Philosophy and Politics - Critical Explorations

ALESSANDRO FERRARA is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome (Tor Vergata), Italy and former President of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy (2005-2010). Educated at the University of California at Berkeley, as Harkness Fellow, and at the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt, as Humboldt Fellow under the supervision of Jürgen Habermas, he authored: The Democratic Horizon. Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014); The Force of the Example. Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008); Justice and Judgment. The Rise and the Prospect of the Judgment Model in Contemporary Political Philosophy (London: Sage, 1999), and several other monographs, articles and contributions to edited volumes in political and legal philosophy. Since 1992 Professor Ferrara has been a Co-Director of the Yearly Conference on Philosophy and Social Science, founded by Jürgen Habermas in Dubrovnik in 1976 and since 1993 held in Prague under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Science. Former Co-Directors include Jean Cohen, Axel Honneth, Frank Michelman, Seyla Benhabib, Nancy Fraser, Rainer Forst, William Scheuerman, and other distinguished colleagues.