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Franco M. Di Sciullo
Titolo/Title
Tra teorizzazione, politicizzazione e comparazione. Lo studio del pensiero politico nel XXI secolo, 77-88 (PDF)
Abstract
One hundred years ago Gaetano Mosca began teaching “Storia delle dottrine e delle istituzioni politiche” (History of political doctrines and institutions) at the University of Rome. What does it mean to study political theory today, at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century? Can the so-called ‘traditional canon’, which includes only Western authors, still be accepted as a canon, after the emergence of a global, comparative, history of political theory? What is the relationship between political philosophy, politics and the history of political thought? According to the author, we should try to go beyond the theorization and politicization of the history of political thought, renouncing a predominantly philosophical method to adopt a contextualist approach, which should include the scholar’s self-contextualization.
Keywords
History of political thought – Political philosophy – Comparative political theory – Global political theory – Contextualism
BIO
Franco M. DI SCIULLO is Professor of History of political thought at the University of Messina. He is member of scientific boards of journals and since 2003 a member of the direction board of the scientific series “Progetto Polis”. He has been a research associate of the Royal Holloway College and a fellow of the Bentham Project. He is author of books and essays on the history of British political thought from Hobbes to Mill. In recent years his writings have focused on the debate about Western democracies after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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