Tra teorizzazione, politicizzazione e comparazione. Lo studio del pensiero politico nel XXI secolo

One hundred years ago Gaetano Mosca began teaching “Storia delle dottrine e delle istituzioni politiche” (History of political doctrines and institutions) at the University of Rome. What does it mean to study political theory today, at the end of the first quarter of the 21st century? Can the so-called ‘traditional canon’, which includes only Western authors, still be accepted as a canon, after the emergence of a global, comparative, history of political theory? What is the relationship between political philosophy, politics and the history of political thought? According to the author, we should try to go beyond the theorization and politicization of the history of political thought, renouncing a predominantly philosophical method to adopt a contextualist approach, which should include the scholar's self-contextualization.