Davide Cadeddu

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About Davide Cadeddu

Davide Cadeddu, PhD, FRHistS, is Professor of History of Political Theory and member of the Doctoral School in Historical Studies at the University of Milan. Executive Editor of “Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation”, he is Scientific Coordinator of the association “Globus et Locus” (Italy). He is member of the Editorial Board of the journals “Il pensiero politico”, “Scienza & Politica”,"Storia e Politica" and “Storia della storiografia – History of Historiography” and editor of the series “Biblioteca di cultura politica europea” (Rubbettino, Italy) and “Filologia e politica” (Giappichelli, Italy). Professor Cadeddu is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography, the European Society for the History of Political Thought, the International Political Science Association, and the Associazione italiana degli storici delle dottrine politiche. He writes occasionally for some national newspapers and above all for “HuffPost” (Italian edition), where he has his own blog. He is also director of the Seminar on Classics of Political Thought at the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation (Italy). He mainly deals with the history of twentieth century political theory, focusing on federalism, elitism and the relationship between culture and politics. Among his recent publications in English, Reimagining Democracy: On the Political Project of Adriano Olivetti (Springer, 2012);(ed.) A Companion to Antonio Gramsci: Essays on History and Theories of History, Politics and Historiography (Brill, 2020); “John Dunn and the History of Political Theory”, in History of European Ideas, Vol. 47, Issue 1 (2021); Towards and Beyond the Italian Republic: Adriano Olivetti’s Vision of Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).