Alessandro Mulieri
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alessandro Mulieri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alessandro |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulieri |
| SIGNATURE | MULIERI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3798-4309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Virtue Politics
Theorizing the multitude before Machiavelli. Marsilius of Padua between Aristotle and Ibn Rushd
Even if political theorists rarely read him, Italian political thinker, Marsilius of Padua, presents one of the most radical theories of the multitude prior to Machiavelli and Spinoza. This article reconstructs Marsilius of Padua's political theory of the multitude in his Defender of Peace and pays special attention to two main sources from which Marsilius frames his theory: Aristotle and Ibn Rushd. Compared to Aristotle, Marsilius advances a mor…
Machiavelli’s ironic discourse to defend a radical republic
The Discourse on Florentine Affairs contains a proposal for constitutional reform in which Machiavelli directly addresses Pope Giovanni de’ Medici. With the aim of contributing to the recent radical republican readings of Machiavelli, this paper argues that the best way to understand the Discourse is to read it as an example of Machiavelli’s use of irony. Machiavelli disguises his radical republican ideas in the Discourse with paradoxes, omission…
Imagining Leviathan
Hobbes is often portrayed as a thinker who anticipated modern constructivist ideas of fiction and representation according to which reality is simply a social construction. This article questions this view in two ways. First, it clarifies Hobbes’s reflections on fiction, by comparing his discussion of images as either “resemblance” or as “the representation of one thing by another” in the Leviathan, with his thoughts on fiction and imagination, p…
Machiavelli, Aristotle and the Scholastics. The origins of human society and the status of prudence
This paper assesses the complex debt of Machiavelli’s moral and political thought to Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition, especially in its Scholastic variant. My claim is that Machiavelli’s attitude vis-à-vis Aristotle is twofold because it reflects two different aspects of Aristotle’s moral and political theory that are closely intertwined and that were selectively developed by subsequent Aristotelian Scholastic commentators: a teleologica…
The Political Thinker as a Civil Physician
While scholars have widely acknowledged a reliance on medical language in the political theories of Marsilius of Padua and Niccolò Machiavelli, they have rarely investigated the epistemological status of this appropriation. Questioning Leo Strauss’ claim that Jewish-Arabic Platonic ideas on the philosopher-king could have been a possible model for Marsilius and Machiavelli, this paper aims to show that the use of medical language by Marsilius of …
La représentation-incarnation chez Marsile de Padoue
Dans Le Défenseur de la paix , il y a deux théories de la représentation-incarnation. La première, décrite dans la première partie, traite des relations entre le premier législateur, le peuple (populus) ou le corps des citoyens tout entier ( universitas civium ), et la partie prépondérante ( valentior pars ). Le second modèle de représentation-incarnation, dans la deuxième partie de l’oeuvre, concerne la théorie marsilienne du Concile, qui représ…
Representation as a political-theological concept
In his 1923 work, Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Carl Schmitt claims that representation is a complexio oppositorum (a unity of opposites) and incarnates a hierarchical form of political authority, which is alternative to liberalism. This article shows that Carl Schmitt’s interpretation of the political theology of representation is based on a misreading. Schmitt selectively overlooks some meanings of the theology of repraesentatio to buil…
Hasso Hofmann and the Polysemy of Representation
Undoubtedly, representation is one of the most elusive notions that we can find in political theory and includes several different and often incompatible meanings. Most of these meanings have their origins in the history of the word. In recent years, the field of political theory has witnessed a renewed attention to political representation. Yet, there has been almost no scholarly literature on the specific problem of the relationship between the…
Debating representative democracy
Democracy and global governance
This concluding chapter outlines a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between global governance, democracy and the findings of the papers in this volume. It identifies the two principles of affectedness and representation in the literature on democratic global governance, and relates them to the three democratic building blocks of equality, inclusive participation and accountability. These five theoretical components are then co…
Liberalism against Democracy
This article presents a comparative analysis of the concepts of totalitarian democracy and positive liberty in the work of Jacob Leib Talmon and Isaiah Berlin. Its main purpose is to show that a combined analysis of Talmon and Berlin's biographical relationship and their individual texts demonstrates that Talmon's idea of totalitarian democracy may have had a greater influence on Berlin's notion of positive liberty than Berlin seems to have ever …
Beyond Electoral Democracy? A Critical Assessment of Constructivist Representation in the Global Arena
This article draws on Pitkin's framework of political representation to analyse two constructivist frameworks of representation: Saward's concept of representative claim and Dryzek and Niemeyer's notion of discursive representation. It shows that these two notions entail a constitutive view of representation and decouple formalistic from substantive representation. Even if the theoretical thrust of these two accounts is to complement traditional …
Beyond Electoral Democracy? A Critical Assessment of Constructivist Representation in the Global Arena
This article draws on Pitkin's framework of political representation to analyse two constructivist frameworks of representation: Saward's concept of representative claim and Dryzek and Niemeyer's notion of discursive representation. It shows that these two notions entail a constitutive view of representation and decouple formalistic from substantive representation. Even if the theoretical thrust of these two accounts is to complement traditional …
The Political Thinker as a Civil Physician
While scholars have widely acknowledged a reliance on medical language in the political theories of Marsilius of Padua and Niccolò Machiavelli, they have rarely investigated the epistemological status of this appropriation. Questioning Leo Strauss’ claim that Jewish-Arabic Platonic ideas on the philosopher-king could have been a possible model for Marsilius and Machiavelli, this paper aims to show that the use of medical language by Marsilius of …
Representation as a political-theological concept
In his 1923 work, Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Carl Schmitt claims that representation is a complexio oppositorum (a unity of opposites) and incarnates a hierarchical form of political authority, which is alternative to liberalism. This article shows that Carl Schmitt’s interpretation of the political theology of representation is based on a misreading. Schmitt selectively overlooks some meanings of the theology of repraesentatio to buil…
Debating representative democracy
Theorizing the multitude before Machiavelli. Marsilius of Padua between Aristotle and Ibn Rushd
Even if political theorists rarely read him, Italian political thinker, Marsilius of Padua, presents one of the most radical theories of the multitude prior to Machiavelli and Spinoza. This article reconstructs Marsilius of Padua's political theory of the multitude in his Defender of Peace and pays special attention to two main sources from which Marsilius frames his theory: Aristotle and Ibn Rushd. Compared to Aristotle, Marsilius advances a mor…
Machiavelli, Aristotle and the Scholastics. The origins of human society and the status of prudence
This paper assesses the complex debt of Machiavelli’s moral and political thought to Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition, especially in its Scholastic variant. My claim is that Machiavelli’s attitude vis-à-vis Aristotle is twofold because it reflects two different aspects of Aristotle’s moral and political theory that are closely intertwined and that were selectively developed by subsequent Aristotelian Scholastic commentators: a teleologica…
Democracy and global governance
This concluding chapter outlines a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between global governance, democracy and the findings of the papers in this volume. It identifies the two principles of affectedness and representation in the literature on democratic global governance, and relates them to the three democratic building blocks of equality, inclusive participation and accountability. These five theoretical components are then co…
Liberalism against Democracy
This article presents a comparative analysis of the concepts of totalitarian democracy and positive liberty in the work of Jacob Leib Talmon and Isaiah Berlin. Its main purpose is to show that a combined analysis of Talmon and Berlin's biographical relationship and their individual texts demonstrates that Talmon's idea of totalitarian democracy may have had a greater influence on Berlin's notion of positive liberty than Berlin seems to have ever …
Democracy and global governance
This concluding chapter outlines a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between global governance, democracy and the findings of the papers in this volume. It identifies the two principles of affectedness and representation in the literature on democratic global governance, and relates them to the three democratic building blocks of equality, inclusive participation and accountability. These five theoretical components are then co…
Liberalism against Democracy
This article presents a comparative analysis of the concepts of totalitarian democracy and positive liberty in the work of Jacob Leib Talmon and Isaiah Berlin. Its main purpose is to show that a combined analysis of Talmon and Berlin's biographical relationship and their individual texts demonstrates that Talmon's idea of totalitarian democracy may have had a greater influence on Berlin's notion of positive liberty than Berlin seems to have ever …
Beyond Electoral Democracy? A Critical Assessment of Constructivist Representation in the Global Arena
This article draws on Pitkin's framework of political representation to analyse two constructivist frameworks of representation: Saward's concept of representative claim and Dryzek and Niemeyer's notion of discursive representation. It shows that these two notions entail a constitutive view of representation and decouple formalistic from substantive representation. Even if the theoretical thrust of these two accounts is to complement traditional …
Hasso Hofmann and the Polysemy of Representation
Undoubtedly, representation is one of the most elusive notions that we can find in political theory and includes several different and often incompatible meanings. Most of these meanings have their origins in the history of the word. In recent years, the field of political theory has witnessed a renewed attention to political representation. Yet, there has been almost no scholarly literature on the specific problem of the relationship between the…
Debating representative democracy
La représentation-incarnation chez Marsile de Padoue
Dans Le Défenseur de la paix , il y a deux théories de la représentation-incarnation. La première, décrite dans la première partie, traite des relations entre le premier législateur, le peuple (populus) ou le corps des citoyens tout entier ( universitas civium ), et la partie prépondérante ( valentior pars ). Le second modèle de représentation-incarnation, dans la deuxième partie de l’oeuvre, concerne la théorie marsilienne du Concile, qui représ…
Representation as a political-theological concept
In his 1923 work, Roman Catholicism and Political Form, Carl Schmitt claims that representation is a complexio oppositorum (a unity of opposites) and incarnates a hierarchical form of political authority, which is alternative to liberalism. This article shows that Carl Schmitt’s interpretation of the political theology of representation is based on a misreading. Schmitt selectively overlooks some meanings of the theology of repraesentatio to buil…
Machiavelli, Aristotle and the Scholastics. The origins of human society and the status of prudence
This paper assesses the complex debt of Machiavelli’s moral and political thought to Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition, especially in its Scholastic variant. My claim is that Machiavelli’s attitude vis-à-vis Aristotle is twofold because it reflects two different aspects of Aristotle’s moral and political theory that are closely intertwined and that were selectively developed by subsequent Aristotelian Scholastic commentators: a teleologica…
The Political Thinker as a Civil Physician
While scholars have widely acknowledged a reliance on medical language in the political theories of Marsilius of Padua and Niccolò Machiavelli, they have rarely investigated the epistemological status of this appropriation. Questioning Leo Strauss’ claim that Jewish-Arabic Platonic ideas on the philosopher-king could have been a possible model for Marsilius and Machiavelli, this paper aims to show that the use of medical language by Marsilius of …
Machiavelli’s ironic discourse to defend a radical republic
The Discourse on Florentine Affairs contains a proposal for constitutional reform in which Machiavelli directly addresses Pope Giovanni de’ Medici. With the aim of contributing to the recent radical republican readings of Machiavelli, this paper argues that the best way to understand the Discourse is to read it as an example of Machiavelli’s use of irony. Machiavelli disguises his radical republican ideas in the Discourse with paradoxes, omission…
Imagining Leviathan
Hobbes is often portrayed as a thinker who anticipated modern constructivist ideas of fiction and representation according to which reality is simply a social construction. This article questions this view in two ways. First, it clarifies Hobbes’s reflections on fiction, by comparing his discussion of images as either “resemblance” or as “the representation of one thing by another” in the Leviathan, with his thoughts on fiction and imagination, p…
Theorizing the multitude before Machiavelli. Marsilius of Padua between Aristotle and Ibn Rushd
Even if political theorists rarely read him, Italian political thinker, Marsilius of Padua, presents one of the most radical theories of the multitude prior to Machiavelli and Spinoza. This article reconstructs Marsilius of Padua's political theory of the multitude in his Defender of Peace and pays special attention to two main sources from which Marsilius frames his theory: Aristotle and Ibn Rushd. Compared to Aristotle, Marsilius advances a mor…
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