Nadia Urbinati: 11 books

Book cover of Democracy Disfigured
by Nadia Urbinati
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

In Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define democracy. Urbinati identifies three types of democratic disfiguration:...
Book cover of Liberi e uguali

Liberi e uguali

Contro l'ideologia individualista

by Nadia Urbinati
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 6, 2012

Nadia Urbinati argomenta efficacemente da un lato contro l'isolamento degli individui, dall'altro contro l'uguaglianza gregaria o quella escludente dei privilegiati. Per non trasformare le differenze in disuguaglianze, sostiene l'uguaglianza dei diversi, una società di individui normali ma dotati...
Book cover of The Antiegalitarian Mutation

The Antiegalitarian Mutation

The Failure of Institutional Politics in Liberal Democracies

by Nadia Urbinati, Arturo Zampaglione
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016

The twin crises of immigration and mass migration brought new urgency to the balance of power between progressive, humanitarian groups and their populist opponents. In the United States and many European countries, the outcome of this struggle is uncertain, with a high chance that the public will...
Book cover of The Tyranny of the Moderns
by Professor Nadia Urbinati
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015

In a well-reasoned and thought-provoking polemic, respected political theorist Nadia Urbinati explores a profound shift in the ideology of individualism, from the ethical nineteenth-century standard, in which each person cooperates with others as equals for the betterment of their lives and the community,...
Book cover of Democrazia e rappresentanza: problemi e prospettive
by Agnes Heller, Sabino Cassese, Mario Tronti
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 11, 2016

Tutti parlano di crisi della democrazia. In questo libro Ágnes Heller, Sabino Cassese, Mario Tronti, Mauro Magatti e Nadia Urbinati offrono nuovi spunti di conoscenza alla nostra vita civile.
Book cover of Città aperta, solidale e partecipata
by Nadia Urbinati
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Impotente nella dimensione nazionale e globale, la politica sembra si sia ritirata nella dimensione locale. La rinascita della vita associativa e della progettualità fa della città il luogo dell'attivismo pubblico dei molti contrapposto all'attivismo privato dei pochi che è invece agito nella dimensione...
Book cover of Mill's The Subjection of Women
by Wendy Donner, Keith Burgess-Jackson, Julia Annas
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2005

John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women is a landmark work both in the long history of women's struggles for political, legal, economic, and personal equality, and in the shorter history of rigorous intellectual analyses of women's subordination. One of the lasting legacies of Mill's The Subjection...
Book cover of Planetary Politics

Planetary Politics

Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society

by Alba Alexander, Ulrich Beck, Carl Boggs
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005

Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this...
Book cover of Forms of Pluralism and Democratic Constitutionalism
by Frederick Cooper, Tsilly Dagan, Rob Howse
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018

The achievements of the democratic constitutional order have long been associated with the sovereign nation-state. Civic nationalist assumptions hold that social solidarity and social plurality are compatible, offering a path to guarantees of individual rights, social justice, and tolerance for minority...
Book cover of La mutazione antiegualitaria

La mutazione antiegualitaria

Intervista sullo stato della democrazia

by Nadia Urbinati, Zampaglione Arturo
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 23, 2013

La nostra democrazia sta subendo un processo di mutazione molecolare di cui non riusciamo ancora a cogliere la direzione. Nel suo aspetto più visibile la mutazione è politica ed economica. Riguarda la composizione sociale della cittadinanza, il rapporto tra le classi e il governo dell'economia pubblica...
Book cover of Democrazia sfigurata

Democrazia sfigurata

Il popolo fra opinione e verità

by Nadia Urbinati
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 12, 2017

Ognuno di noi ha il proprio fenotipo ed è grazie a esso che gli altri ci riconoscono. Allo stesso modo, una società democratica ha caratteristiche proprie che la rendono esteriormente riconoscibile. La democrazia rappresentativa è un sistema diarchico fondato sulla volontà (diritto di voto, procedure...
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