Are there meaningful conceptual trajectories that can be traced between ancient Greco-Roman atomism, Spinozan monism, Humean empiricism, Marxian materialism, and…
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the City College of New York (CUNY) and Associate Researcher at the Center for European Studies of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). He is the author of a book entitled Relativism and Religion. Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes (Columbia University Press, 2015) as well as numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals on topics such as: secularism, constitutionalism, christian democracy, catholic social thought, militant democracy, populism, human rights and the contemporary crisis of party democracy.
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“I am not a racist, but . . .”: The perversity of the recent ECJ ruling on the “headscarf issue”
March 20, 2017
It is by now commonplace that ostensibly “neutral” language—such as the notorious preamble “I am not a racist, but .…
Relativism and Religion: An introduction
September 13, 2016
Politicized religion seems to have a new enemy: Moral relativism is denounced by believers of all stripes as a threat…
From personalism to liberalism?
June 11, 2015
In his paper “Personalism, Community and the Origins of Human Rights,” Samuel Moyn argues that a relatively understudied current of…