Leonardo Fiorespino, PhD.
Leonardo Fiorespino joined the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in January 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, an MSc in Comparative Political Thought from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London), and a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the editor of two books published in 2020 and 2022, and the author of Radical Democracy and Populism: A Thin Red Line? (Springer, Cham 2022). His current research focuses on contemporary democratic theory, populism and its relationship with democracy, degenerations of democracy, the public interest, and normativity in political theory. He teaches ethics and moral philosophy at the University of New York in Prague.
Address: Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research, Jilská 1, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic (office 209a)
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Books
- Radical Democracy and Populism: A Thin Red Line?, Springer, Cham, 2022
Edited books
- The Persistence of Justice as Fairness: Reflections on Rawls’s Legacy (edited with V. Fabbrizi), UniversItalia, Collana Ricerca Continua, Roma, 2022
- Crisi e Trasformazioni, Vol. 2: Filosofie e processi storico-sociali (edited with A. Collacchi), UniversItalia, Roma, 2020
Specialized publications
- “Incompatible sovereigns: Populism, democracy and the two peoples”, in Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2023 (OnlineFirst: https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537231182912)
- “Introduction. The Persistence of Justice as Fairness” (with V. Fabbrizi), in V. Fabbrizi and L. Fiorespino (eds.), The Persistence of Justice as Fairness: Reflections on Rawls’s Legacy, UniversItalia, Collana Ricerca Continua, Roma, 2022, pp. 5-17
- “Sketches of a politics of affects in Rawls’s liberalism”, in V. Fabbrizi and L. Fiorespino (eds.), The Persistence of Justice as Fairness: Reflections on Rawls’s Legacy, UniversItalia, Collana Ricerca Continua, Roma, 2022, pp. 19-39
- “Le crisi dietro ‘La Crisi’”, in A. Collacchi and L. Fiorespino (eds.), Crisi e Trasformazioni, Vol. 2: Filosofie e processi storico-sociali, UniversItalia, Roma, 2020, pp. 13-25
- “Quale popolo sovrano? Un confronto tra Jürgen Habermas e John Rawls”, in G. Brancato, G. D’Ambrosio, E. De Marchis, R. Gallo, M. Stolfi, M. Tedesco (eds.), CNDSS: Atti della IV Conferenza Nazionale delle Dottorande e dei Dottorandi in Scienze Sociali, Sapienza Università Editrice, Roma, 2020, pp. 331-340
Book reviews
- Review of A. Taraborrelli, Hannah Arendt e il cosmopolitismo: Stato, comunità, mondi in comune, in Politica & Società (3/2022, settembre-dicembre), pp. 461-468
Blogs and online contributions
- “Recently Published Book Spotlight: Radical Democracy and Populism: A Thin Red Line?” (with M. Stohlman-Vanderveen), in the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, May 2022 (invited)
- “I classify, therefore I know?”, in the ECPR (The Loop) series “Science of Democracy”, May 2022 (invited)
