Olimpia Malatesta
PhD in History of Political Thought (Università di Bologna) and in Sociology (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena), double degree (cotutelle)
Olimpia Malatesta is research fellow in History of Political Thought and works on a project entitled Political planning in European liberal democracies from the 1920s to the 2020s. Her research deals with ordoliberalism (Eucken, Röpke, Müller-Armack, Rüstow, Böhm) and its relations with German sociology (Sombart, Schmoller), with Austrian neoliberalism (Hayek) and with authoritarian liberalism, with a special focus on the conservative revolution (Schmitt) and the Weimar Republic. She has also dedicated herself to the study of the different interpretations of neoliberalism (especially Foucault, Brown, Fraser, Dardot, Laval). She graduated in Philosophy at the Freie Univerisität Berlin and was a research fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. She completed her PhD in cotutelle between the University of Bologna and the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, was research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her first monograph entitled "Ordoliberalism, State and Society: An epoch-making theory" (Routledge) will be published in 2024.
Olimpia Malatesta is research fellow in History of Political Thought and works on a project entitled Political planning in European liberal democracies from the 1920s to the 2020s. Her research deals with ordoliberalism (Eucken, Röpke, Müller-Armack, Rüstow, Böhm) and its relations with German sociology (Sombart, Schmoller), with Austrian neoliberalism (Hayek) and with authoritarian liberalism, with a special focus on the conservative revolution (Schmitt) and the Weimar Republic. She has also dedicated herself to the study of the different interpretations of neoliberalism (especially Foucault, Brown, Fraser, Dardot, Laval). She graduated in Philosophy at the Freie Univerisität Berlin and was a research fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici. She completed her PhD in cotutelle between the University of Bologna and the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, was research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her first monograph entitled "Ordoliberalism, State and Society: An epoch-making theory" (Routledge) will be published in 2024.
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of apartheid. By reconstructing the arguments in favour of South African
segregation, it will be shown how, although radicalised over time, these
positions did not produce a real break in his theory. The discussion over decolonisation
and Western development programmes will be placed within the
broader framework of his sociological theory. Indeed, it will be argued how
the defence of racial evolutionism, far from producing a rupture within his
conceptual system, harmonises perfectly with his hyper-conservative social
theory and his scepticism towards mass democracy. Finally, it will be shown
how the question of race, as well as that of class, impact equally on the proposal
for a global economic order that is immune to the “mass hyperpoliticisation”
of which the post-World War II global New Deal is accused.
The second part describes Böhm’s concept of economic constitution as a reaction toSavigny’s ‘fatalism’, whereas the third part centers around the ordoliberal notion of society conceived in terms of an organic community. The final part of the essay offers a discussion on the relation between the ordoliberal theory, the social market economy and the European Union.
Call For Papers by Olimpia Malatesta
Proposals (full papers) should be sent to FraserCfP2023@gmail.com by 31 January 2023
https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/scenari/call-for-papers-1-23?fbclid=IwAR1g7W377No0YJhYATF6EenMoYWglrYYOfOehiyzdWrXS3WEudHq8VcxI14
of apartheid. By reconstructing the arguments in favour of South African
segregation, it will be shown how, although radicalised over time, these
positions did not produce a real break in his theory. The discussion over decolonisation
and Western development programmes will be placed within the
broader framework of his sociological theory. Indeed, it will be argued how
the defence of racial evolutionism, far from producing a rupture within his
conceptual system, harmonises perfectly with his hyper-conservative social
theory and his scepticism towards mass democracy. Finally, it will be shown
how the question of race, as well as that of class, impact equally on the proposal
for a global economic order that is immune to the “mass hyperpoliticisation”
of which the post-World War II global New Deal is accused.
The second part describes Böhm’s concept of economic constitution as a reaction toSavigny’s ‘fatalism’, whereas the third part centers around the ordoliberal notion of society conceived in terms of an organic community. The final part of the essay offers a discussion on the relation between the ordoliberal theory, the social market economy and the European Union.
Proposals (full papers) should be sent to FraserCfP2023@gmail.com by 31 January 2023
https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/scenari/call-for-papers-1-23?fbclid=IwAR1g7W377No0YJhYATF6EenMoYWglrYYOfOehiyzdWrXS3WEudHq8VcxI14