Inside the Rawlsian Horizon?

Alessandro Ferrara’s attempt to interpret the “spirit of democracy” offers us a perspicuous insight into the issues at stake, on the background of contemporary “inhospitable” conditions for representative government. These issues are approached from new perspectives, offering original points of view. Nonetheless the deliberate choice to approach such issues “from the normative framework developed by Rawls in Political Liberalism” partially inhibits the possibility of actually engaging with the challenges Ferrara so vividly sketches in their full radical complexity.