The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Events
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 11:00
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe UniversityFKH colloquium
Clementina Gentile Fusillo
»The Political Theory of Aldo Moro: A Research Project«Abstract
The kidnap and murder in 1978 of Aldo Moro, five-times Christian Democrat Prime Minister of Italy, is today widely recognized as a key political event of the twentieth century. Yet, the focus on the tragic and obscure circumstances of his death have overshadowed Aldo Moro’s importance not only as a major political actor, but also and especially as a complex political thinker, one who remained Professor of Law throughout his political career. This presentation outlines a project which aims at providing the first comprehensive account of Moro’s political theory, investigating this across three dimensions: a contextual dimension, looking at the intellectual and political context of his work and his specific contribution to Christian Democratic ideology; a conceptual dimension, exploring the key concepts and central themes of his political thought; and a normative dimension, revealing the relevance of Moro’s radical view of Centre politics in addressing the challenges that populism and growing political polarisation pose for representative democracies today.
The speaker
Clementina Gentile Fusillo received her PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Warwick with the dissertation titled »On the Virtues of Truth: Generativity and the Demands of Democracy«. In the academic year 2024/25, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften at the invitation of Rainer Forst and the Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies funded by the Alfons and Gertrud Kassel Foundation, working on her project »Power and the representative: Towards a new normative theory of democratic representation«.
Participation
Closed event. Contact: Beate Sutterlüty; email: b.sutterluety@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de
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