Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Enrico Zoffoli

Profile at Normative Orders Website

http://www.enricozoffoli.com/

Mail:

zoffoli(at)pg.tu-darmstadt.de

Enrico.Zoffoli(at)normativeorders.net

 

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

1996-2001: High School Liceo Scientifico “A. Righi”, Cesena, Italy.  

2005: BA cum laude in Philosophy, 2005, University of Bologna.

2006-2007: Erasmus MA student, University of Mainz, Germany.

2008: MA cum laude in Philosophy, University of Bologna.

2008-2011: Graduate student, Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Frankfurt am Main / Darmstadt, Germany.

2010-2011: University Associate at the University of Arizona.

 

CURRENT POSITION

PhD Candidate (ABD, PhD expected 2011) – Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”

http://www.normativeorders.net/

Project on Politische Normativität.

Technical University Darmstadt

 

UNIVERSITY ADDRESS

Department of Politics, Technical University Darmstadt

Alexanderstr. 35, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)6151 16-5069

 

LANGUAGES:

Italian (mother language),

German (fluent),

English (fluent),

Spanish (good reading comprehension).

 

 

RESEARCH FIELDS:

Political philosophy, history of philosophy, public reason.

Dissertation title: “Public Reason and the Priority of Consensus”.

 

PUBLICATIONS - SELECTED REVIEWS:

Review of  Carlo A. Viano, Laici in ginocchio (Einaudi, Turin, 2006) in Teoria Politica, Milan, 3/2006, 173-178.

Review of Peter Niesen, “Bentham and Kant on Foreign Policy: a Case of the West Divided?” (D.Chambers, V. Heins, (eds.), Ethical Foreign Policy, Routledge, London, 2008) and “Varieties of Cosmopolitanism: Bentham and Kant on International Politics” (L. Caranti (ed.), New Essays on the Democratic Peace, Luiss University Press, Rome, 2008) in Teoria Politica, Milan, 2/2007: 159-163.

Review of Hauke Brunkhorst, Habermas (Reclam, Stuttgart, 2006), in  Rivista critica del diritto privato, Naples, 3/2007: 535-540.

Review of Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man (Random House, New York, 2006), in Teoria Politica, Milan, 2/2007: 198-202.

Review of Regina Kreide, Globale Politik und Menschenrechte (Campus, Frankfurt/M, 2009), in The Federalist Debate, Year XXIII, Number 3, November 2010.

 

PUBLICATIONS - SELECTED ARTICLES:

 

"Al di sotto della cittadinanza" [Beneath Citizenship], in Teoria Politica, 2/2009: 169-183.

"Jürgen Habermas: entre hechos y normas" [Jürgen Habermas between Facts and Norms]; translated into Spanish by A. Attili and L. Salazar, Isonomia – Revista de Teorìa y Filosofìa del Derecho, vol. 32, 2010: 69-90.

“Se il laico vuol davvero essere imparziale” [What it takes to be impartial], in Reset 120, July-August 2010: 66-70.

"Orientamento mediante ragioni pubbliche" [Public Reasons as Guidelines], in Thauma, 2010: 119-150.

"Due tipi di argomentazione morale: giustificazione e applicazione in Klaus Günther" [Two Kinds of Moral Argumentation: Justification and Application in Klaus Günther’s Theory], in Ars Intepretandi, Journal of Legal Hermeneutics, XV/2010: 85-98.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS – EDITED BOOKS

Enrico Zoffoli (ed.) – Leonardo Ceppa (trans.), Habermas, by Hauke Brunkhorst, Florence University Press, Florence, 2009 – Afterword by Enrico Zoffoli.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS – BOOKS

La soluzione habermasiana al particolarismo dei valori [Habermas’s Solution to Value Particularism], Trauben, Turin, 2010.

 

SELECTED CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PAPERS:

 

"Which Reasons are Public?" - ECPR Joint Sessions, Lisbon 14-19 April 2009.

"Reasoning from Conjecture" - ECPR General Conference, Potsdam 10-12 September 2009.

"Kantian Constructivism and Priority Rules", 7th Pavia Graduate Conference, 24-25 September 2009.

“Can Religious Beliefs be Public Reasons?”, SLU Graduate Conference, St. Louis, MO, 7-8 October 2010.

 “A critique of Scanlon’s Non-Rejectability Requirement”, Florida Philosophical Association, Daytona Beach, FL, 4-7 November 2010.

“The Paradox of Convergence”, ECPR Joint Sessions, St.Gallen 12-17 April 2011.

 

COURSES TAUGHT AT THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS, DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY:

 

Winter 2009/10: The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate (English).

 

Summer 2010: Herrschaft und Macht (German).