Abstract

Should not the several islands of the archipelago called political philosophy debate the identity of their discipline (epistemological self-reflection) rather that ignore each other? This author’s approach is guided by a threefold concern: 1) how to put the researcher’s eyes back on the challenges of our real contemporary (and future) world rather than focusing on the history of thought, 2) how to give political philosophy its autonomy back against the normativistic tendance to make it a subordinate branch of ethics, 3) how to relaunch – particularly in Italy – a degree of vital interaction between the discipline and political debates of the present