«L’existence précède l’essence»«L’homme est condamné à être libre»(Jean-Paul Sartre)

Il “pensiero debole” e la “sfida della complessità” sono stati, per un decennio, due orientamenti al centro di un appassionato dibattito nella cultura italiana; essi ritengono di essere il punto d’arrivo di istanze, idee, progetti presenti nella cultura italiana ed europea dei precedenti decenni.La nuova generazione filosofica ha elevato una critica radicale al tradizionale modello di razionalità ‘classica’, ritenuto inadeguato a cogliere la complessità sociale, antropologica, cultu...

This book analyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe. Building on different theoretical perspectives, from social movements theory to political behavior approaches, the author provides new empirical evidence on the patterns of protest politics. Readers will discover why some citizens are more likely to get involved in protests than others, and why levels of protest differ from country to country. The author illustrates that engagement in polit...

This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of how attitudes towards democracy and political institutions differ across 31 countries in Europe, and how these attitudes have fluctuated over time. After addressing conceptual and measurement issues about the evaluative dimension of political support, the authors develop a unique framework assessing the role of the institutional format, the quality of the political process, macro-economic conditions and inequality to explain trends ...