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'''Alessandro Ferrara''' (born 1953 in [[Trieste]]) is an Italian philosopher, Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at the [[University of Rome Tor Vergata]] and former President of the [[Italian Association for Political Philosophy]]. He is currently
==Studies==
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
==Academic life==
Ferrara served as assistant professor in sociology at the University of Rome
Since 1991, Ferrara has been a co-director of the yearly conference ''Philosophy and Social Science'', initially held within the Interuniversity Centre of Dubrovnik, but since 1993 relocated to Prague, under the auspices of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science.
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==Research==
Ferrara's work revolves around an account of normativity centered on authenticity and exemplarity, which incorporates a reconstructed version of Kant's
In ''Reflective Authenticity'' (1998) exemplary normativity is first outlined and in ''Justice and Judgment'' (1999) is developed in the direction of a political-philosophical notion of justice based on reflective judgment. In ''The Force of the Example'' (2008), drawing on Kant's ''Critique of the Power of Judgment'' but also on Arendt, Rawls, Dworkin, and Habermas, Ferrara applies his view of exemplary validity to central themes of contemporary political philosophy, including public reason, human rights, radical evil, sovereignty, republicanism and liberalism, as well as religion in the public sphere.
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==Books authored==
* [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)
* [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/legitimation-by-constitution-9780192855121?cc=it&lang=en& with Frank I. Michelman, '''''Legitimation by Constitution: A Dialogue on Political Liberalism''''', Oxford, Oxford University Press (Series: Constitutional Theory), 2021]
* [https://brill.com/display/title/35233 '''''Rousseau and Critical Theory''''', Boston-Leiden, Brill, 2017]
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