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        <title type="main">La democrazia dei moderni</title>
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            <forename>Dino</forename>
            <surname>Costantini</surname>
            <placeName type="affiliation">University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy</placeName>
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        <p>Even though the crisis of the 'real' democratic institutions is increasingly evident, the democratic idea continues to be almost universally considered the only possible guarantee of the legitimacy of political systems. This apparent paradox reminds that, as Hans Kelsen already recognized, the worst risks for democracy originate from its ideological successes. It is precisely its establishment as a unanimously shared «watchword» that risks transforming democracy into a label lacking all historical depth and political urgency. By investigating the modern concept of democracy against the background of the institutional transformations that have accompanied its development, this work aims to deconstruct that aura of necessity with which present-day 'real' democracies love to be surrounded. Through an active comparison with the classics, the author takes into consideration some of the most trenchant critiques that modern democracy has attracted from the period of its invention to date, rounding off with an analysis of the present post-democratic reduction of institutions in the prime democracies. While recalling how the form historically assumed by the democratic institutions has always been the result of heated political debate, this book invites us to rethink the forms of democratic representation outside all naïve, pseudo-naturalistic modes of understanding: thus it would like to help recommence that process of invention of which a democracy not reduced to self-idolatry must consist.</p>
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        <p>Nonostante la crisi delle istituzioni democratiche 'reali' sia sempre più manifesta, l'idea democratica continua ad essere quasi universalmente considerata come la sola garanzia possibile della legittimità degli ordinamenti politici. Questo apparente paradosso ricorda che, come già riconosceva Hans Kelsen, i rischi peggiori per la democrazia provengono dai suoi successi ideologici. È proprio il suo affermarsi quale «parola d'ordine» unanimemente condivisa che rischia di trasformare la democrazia in un'etichetta priva di ogni profondità storica e di ogni urgenza politica. Indagando il concetto moderno di democrazia sullo sfondo delle trasformazioni istituzionali che ne hanno accompagnato lo sviluppo, questo lavoro vorrebbe decostruire quell'aura di necessità della quale le democrazie 'reali' oggi amano circondarsi. Attraverso un serrato confronto con i classici l'autore prende in considerazione alcune tra le più incisive critiche che la democrazia dei moderni ha attirato su di sé dall'epoca della sua invenzione sino ad oggi, per concludere con un'analisi della presente riduzione postdemocratica delle istituzioni delle democrazie d'elezione. Ricordando come la forma storicamente assunta dalle istituzioni democratiche sia stata sempre il risultato di un acceso confronto politico, questo libro invita a ripensare le forme della rappresentanza democratica al di fuori di ogni ingenua comprensione pseudo-naturalistica: esso vorrebbe così contribuire a riattivare quel processo di invenzione in cui una democrazia non ridotta a feticcio di sé stessa deve consistere.</p>
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