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'''Alessandro Ferrara''' (born 1953 in [[Trieste]]) is an Italian philosopher, professorProfessor Emeritus of politicalPolitical philosophyPhilosophy at the [[University of Rome Tor Vergata]] and former presidentPresident of the [[Italian Association for Political Philosophy]]. He is currently teachesAdjunct legalProfessor theoryof Legal Theory at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome and political theory at Loyola University Chicago (JF Rome Center).

Ferrara graduated in philosophy in Italy (1975) and later, as a Harkness Fellow, received his Ph.D. from the [[University of California, Berkeley]] (1984). He conducted post-doctoral research in [[Munich]] and [[Frankfurt]] with [[Jürgen Habermas]] as a Von Humboldt Fellow and laterthen at Berkeley again (1989), leading to the publication of his first book, ''Modernity and Authenticity''.

Ferrara served as assistant professor in sociology at the University of Rome "La“La Sapienza"Sapienza” between 1984 and 1998, then associate professor in sociology at the [[University of Parma]] between 1998 and 2002. SinceBetween 2002 and 2023 Ferrara has been professor of political philosophy, and is presently professor emeritus, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

He has taught and lectured in various capacities in a number of universities and institutions, including Boston College, Harvard University, Columbia University, Rice University, Cardozo Law School, Yale University, New School for Social Research, University College London (UCL), Oxford University, the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing, Sapienza University of Rome, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bilgi University and Sehir University in Istanbul, the National University of Singapore, and the Universities of California (at Berkeley), Paris – Sorbonne, Madrid, Chicago, Potsdam, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Exeter, Manchester, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro, London, Exeter, Dublin, Belfast, Coimbra, Lisbon, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Berne, Bordeaux, Barcelona, Kraków, Lyon III, Tilburg, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Indore, Porto Alegre, Campo Grande, Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, Leuven, Hamburg.

Ferrara's work revolves around an account of normativity centered on authenticity and exemplarity, which incorporates a reconstructed version of Kant's "reflective“reflective judgment"judgment” and is intended as an alternative both to proceduralist, neo-transcendental approaches to validity and to anti-normative, radical contextualism.

* [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sovereignty-across-generations-constituent-power-and-political-liberalism-9780192871077?q=Alessandro%20Ferrara&lang=en&cc=us# '''''Sovereignty Across Generations. Constituent Power and Political Liberalism''''', Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023] [awarded “Best 2023 Book” prize by ICON-S, International Society of Public Law] (transl. into Italian)