Gino Arias (1879-1940), Florentine historian and economist of Israeli origin, was in his later years one of the top theorists of Fascist corporatism, which he came to at the end of an as yet widely unstudied intellectual path. After reconstructing his biography, the book investi…
The book challenges the 'counter-limits' (controlimiti) doctrine devised by the Italian Constitutional Court, in the light of the developments that have taken place within the EU framework over the last decades. The subject matter becomes the looking glass through which the auth…
The book challenges the 'counter-limits' (controlimiti) doctrine devised by the Italian Constitutional Court, in the light of the developments that have taken place within the EU framework over the last decades. The subject matter becomes the looking glass through which the auth…
The fil rouge of the work concerns the transformations of political professionalism, investigated through a particular category of politicians: the mayors of three municipalities in the provincial capitals of Tuscany, elected between 1994 and 2009. The reconstruction of the deba…
The essay analyses the principle of mutual recognition as a legal technique of coordination of the Member States' legal systems. We examine its ability of ensuring effectiveness of the individual's fundamental rights and of favouring the European integration. The study of the pr…
The essay analyses the principle of mutual recognition as a legal technique of coordination of the Member States' legal systems. We examine its ability of ensuring effectiveness of the individual's fundamental rights and of favouring the European integration. The study of the pr…
In a context that may seem, to a fairly realistic pessimist, of forced choice between fanatic neo-fundamentalisms and trivializing single thought, a 'common cause' like the Italian Constitution offers itself as a reference to which to look at with motivated trust from different …
This volume analyses the judgement techniques and the substantial protection offered by the Italian Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights in the context of 'ethically sensitive' issues, such as medically assisted procreation and homo-affective unions. The i…
With the rise of modernity, law faces an irreducible contradiction. It must stem the State's available strength, while at the same time use this strength to make its decisions binding. The author, starting from this paradox, analyses the legal, philosophical and literary discour…
The investigation into the living being and sensation conducted by Aristotle in De Anima and his biological works highlight many theoretical correspondences with Merleau-Ponty's notion of perception and the ontology of the sensible emerging from the Phenomenology of Perception a…
The investigation into the living being and sensation conducted by Aristotle in De Anima and his biological works highlight many theoretical correspondences with Merleau-Ponty's notion of perception and the ontology of the sensible emerging from the Phenomenology of Perception a…