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“... for rather different reasons shown Kantian morality the door. The Italian political philosopher Norberto Bobbio is somewhat more prudent. In these essays on ethics and politics, he regards the two doctrines as different rather than opposed. This is the case with Marx, though Bobbio does not go on to spell out ...”

“... some of which first appeared in this paper, and are now reprinted in Engagement, on Michael Mann, Norberto Bobbio, Roberto Unger, W.G. Runciman. Andreas Hillgruber, Max Weber, Ernest Gellner, Carlo Ginzburg, Isaiah Berlin, Fernand Braudel and Francis Fukuyama. More recently (LRB, 24 September and 22 October), he has extended himself to Michael Oakeshott ...”

“... of reformism, which allows for both ambitious and minimalist interpretations (in a letter to Norberto Bobbio he argues that, politically, it depends on a more threatening and less ordered change waiting in the wings). Calvino writes of multiplicities, or truth discerned through plural discourses, but also of ‘true knowledge’, which is difficult ...”