L'eternità e la morte. I confini temporali dell'obbligazione politica (Appunti sulla riflessione teorica di Gianfranco Miglio)

This paper reconstructs the main features of Gianfranco Miglio’s political theory, which he elaborated during a long research career that began in the early 1940’s under Alessandro Passerin d’Entreves and Giorgio Balladore Pallieri. Although Miglio is mainly known for his radically liberal political activity, pursued in the 1990’s, this paper argues that these late and often consciously provocative positions were in contradiction, sometimes radically, with key points of his political reflection about «political regularities », conducted until the beginning of the 80s. Starting from this consideration, the paper highlights the existence, within Miglio’s intellectual itinerary, of an implicit contradiction between a rigorously positivist methodology and equally strong liberal and individualist cultural roots. The tension between these two roots generated his ideas about the growing importance of the market, relative to the state. With more radical consequences, the tension also led Miglio to reconstruct the logic of political obligation according to a model of utilitarian

Damiano Palano, L'eternità e la morte. I confini temporali dell'obbligazione politica (Appunti sulla riflessione teorica di Gianfranco Miglio) in "TEORIA POLITICA" 2/2002, pp , DOI: