ALESSANDRO FERRARA

CURRICULUM VITAE

Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and former President of the Italian Association for Political Philosophy, has graduated in Philosophy in Italy (1975) and later, as a Harkness Fellow, received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (1984). He has conducted post-doctoral research in Munich and Frankfurt with Jürgen Habermas as a Von Humboldt Fellow and later at Berkeley again, leading to the publication of his first book Modernity and Authenticity (1993).

He has been an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" between 1984 and 1998, then an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Parma between 1998 and 2002, and since 2002 is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

Since 1991 he has been a Co-Director of the Yearly Conference on Philosophy and Social Science, initially part of the regular activities of the Interuniversity Centre of Dubrovnik, but since 1993 relocated in Prague, under the auspices of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science and later of Charles University. Since 1990 he has been a founder and a Co-Director of the Seminario di Teoria Critica, which meets yearly in Gallarate, Italy. And since 2007 he is on the Executive Committee of the Istanbul Seminars on religion and politics, held at Bilgi University in Istanbul under the auspices of the Association Reset - Dialogues of Civilizations.

He serves as editorial consultant on the board of a number of journals including Constellations, Philosophy and Social Criticism, The European Journal of Philosophy, Krisis, Iris, Balsa de la Medusa, Social & Political Thought and on the Advisory Board of the series New Directions in Critical Theory at Columbia University Press.

He has served as editorial consultant for the following publishers: Columbia University Press, Ashgate, Routledge, Cambridge University Press, Sage, Stanford University Press, Penn State University Press.

He has taught and lectured in various capacities in a number of universities and institutions, including Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Rice University, Cardozo Law School, The New School for Social Research in New York, and the Universities of California at Berkeley, Madrid, Chicago, Potsdam, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Exeter, Manchester, Johannesburg, Coimbra, Barcelona, Dublin.

Among his publications:

Books

·      The Democratic Horizon. Hyperpluralism and the Renewal of Political Liberalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, forthcoming. 

•               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.

•               Reflective Authenticity. Rethinking the Project of Modernity, London and New York, Routledge, 1998.

•               Modernity and Authenticity. A Study of the Social and Ethical Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1993.

Edited and co-edited special issues of journals:

•       Overcoming the Trap of Resentment, co-edited with D.Rasmussen  and V.Kaul, special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2012,Vol. 38, 3.

•                    Realigning Liberalism: Pluralism, Integration, Identities,  co-edited

            with D.Rasmussen e V.Kaul,special issue of Philosophy and Social

            Criticism, 2011,Vol. 37, 3.

•                   Postsecularism and Multicultural Jurisdiction, co-edited with D.Rasmussen e V.Kaul, special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 36, 3-4, 2010.

•               Ritual and Sincerity, special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 36, 1, 2010.

•               The Uses of Judgment, special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 34, 1-2, 2008.

Recent essays and articles

•     "Hyperpluralism and the Multivariate Democratic Polity", in Philosophy

          and Social Criticism, 2012, vol. 38, n. 4, pp. 535-444.                

•           "Ferrajoli's Argument for Structural Entrenchment", in Res Publica,  

         Vol. 17, n. 4 (2011), pp. 377-383.

•                  "Politics at its Best: Reasons that Move the Imagination", in C.Bottici and   B.Challand  (eds.), The Politics of Imagination, London, Routledge, 2011, pp. 38-54.

•                  "Reflexive Pluralism", in Postsecularism and Multicultural Jurisdiction, co-edited with D.Rasmussen e V.Kaul, special issue of Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 36, 3-4, 2010, pp. 353-64.

•                  "Authenticity Without a True Self", in Ph. Vannini e J.P.Williams (a c. di), Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society, Farnham, Ashgate, 2009, pp. 21-36.

•                  "Das Gold in Gestein. Verdinglichung und Anerkennung", in R.Forst, M.Hartmann, R.Jaeggi e M.Saar (a c. di), Sozialphilosophie und Kritik, Francoforte, Suhrkamp, 2009, pp. 40-63.

•                  "'Political' Cosmopolitanism and Judgment", in European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 10, n. 1, 2007, pp. 491-504.