Phd in COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL RESEARCH AND MARKETING

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Michele Prospero, full professor in the field SPS01- Political Philosophy. He teaches Philosophy and Political Science; Philosophy of Public Opinion at the Faculty of Political Science Sociology and Communication at La Sapienza University of Rome . In 2013, he was awarded the national scientific qualification as a full professor in Political Philosophy. He has been a researcher in Sociology of Political Processes since 1996 and an associate professor in Philosophy of Law at La Sapienza University of Rome since 2001. He is the author of numerous volumes ranging from political science to political-legal philosophy. Two are his main strands of research. The first embraces the analysis of parties and the Italian political system. To these themes he has devoted the following books: The New Beginning (1990); Mediated Democracy (1993); Political Systems and History (1995); History of Institutions in Italy (1998); The Failure of the Majoritarian (2001); The Contracting State (2003); The Constitution between Populism and Leaderism (2007); The Black Book of Civil Society (2013), Realized Newism (2015), Politics (2016), Conservative Rebellion (2018); Antipolitics as a Profession (2022). In these studies he conducts a tight critique of the dominant politicalological approaches even in Italy, which are lingering at the employment of static institutional models, and recovers the cultural-historical dimension of political systems. Within this framework attentive to the historical-institutional datum, he reads the Italian case in the light of notions related to the long duration of political and social processes, critiques the negative effects of the season of electoral and constitutional reforms of the 1990s and interprets the process of privatization of the public sphere culminating in the Berlusconi phenomenon as an anticipation of similar developments in the crisis of political democracy and the populist moment. The chosen perspective is that of a revival of democratic constitutionalism focused on the role of parties, representation, and citizenship rights. Dedicated to the analysis of political communication and language is the volume The Comedian of Politics (2010).
The second strand of research on politics is more purely theoretical-philosophical in nature. He pays particular attention to the maturation of a philosophy of secular implantation and attentive to the dimensions of corporeality, of the sensible. His theoretical perspective aims at the recovery of the centrality of work, of the body in the rethinking of postmodern political categories. Dedicated to the transformations of postmodern society is the book Philosophy of Property Law (2009), which analyzes the metamorphoses of the institution of property and the changes in the legal conditions of labor in the age of globalization. The following contributions arise from this perspective: Post-Classical Politics (1986); Nostalgia of Great Politics (1990); The Political Thought of the Right (1996); Politics and the Good Life (1997); Modern Politics (2001); Politics and Global Society (2003); At the Origins of the Secular (2006); Philosophy of Property Law (2009), The Political Party (2012); Hans Kelsen (2013), Gramsci's Political Science (2016), Lenin's Pacifist Revolution (2017), Marx's Political Theory (2021). Theoretical work with a history of ideas approach revolves around the major categories (sovereignty, representation, property), major cultural currents (liberalism, socialism, democracy). Within this framework he edited and introduced J. Stuart Mill (Considerations on Representative Government, 1998 and 2020), B. Constant, Principles of Politics (2020); Marx, Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Public Law (2016); Marx, The 18 Brumaire (2015), Lenin (State and Revolution).
His studies are translated into English, French, Spanish, Romanian. He edits the Fascia A journal Democracy and Law.