What can Montesquieu still teach us today? Montesquieu was the first political writer who first formulated the principles of separation of powers and the independence […]
Category: Politics
Philosophy and Hope. Bloch and Löwith Interpreters of Marx
One of the greatest unsolved issues that Karl Marx bequeathed to his interpreters concerns the legitimacy of practical and theoretical hope, both in the frame […]
The West Removed. Economics, Democracy, Freedom: A Counter-History of our Civilization
The seven chapters of this book cover a variety of concepts (liberalism, freedom, Marxism) and classic thinkers (Mill, Marx, Hayek, Popper) in order to disclose […]
Europe and capitalism. Regaining the future
The current European Union is too often presented as the Europe of peoples and freedom. This essay overturns this common way of understanding our political […]
After the Yemeni spring. A survey on the transition
Yemen has been a key-actor in the War on Terror throughout the 2000s. It is a complex country, too often trivialized by statistics focusing on its inconvenient […]