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Simona Forti is a professor of political philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont, known for her work on biopolitics and ethics.

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Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon

Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon

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Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon is a scholarly collection that reexamines foundational ideas in political theory. Each entry explores a key concept—such as democracy, sovereignty, or freedom—through critical and interdisciplinary perspectives, challenging conventional definitions and proposing new frameworks for understanding political life.

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Conceptual Framework

Every political concept lives a double life. It has a genealogical past—inherited from the thinkers, institutions, and conflicts that shaped it—and a performative present, where it is invoked to act, to authorize, to challenge. In framing this lexicon, we began with the conviction that political lan...

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Democracy

Democracy’s power resides in its multiplicity. No single genealogy can contain it—from the assembly of citizens in classical Athens to participatory movements that disrupt contemporary liberal institutions. Democracy, we argue, has always exceeded the frameworks built to define or constrain it. In m...

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Simona Forti is a professor of political philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont, known for her work on biopolitics and ethics.

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