Nadia Urbinati on Italy

TALKING POLITICS

Catherine Carr

News, News & Politics

4.7 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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With Italians elections coming up, we talking to the leading philosopher of democracy Nadia Urbinati about what's going on. How is Berlusconi still in the game? What is the role of the Five Star movement? Are Italian politicians learning any lessons from Trump or Macron? Plus we address the perennial question: is Italy a good indicator of where democracy is heading?

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is David Ransomond, and this is Talking Politics.
0:10.1	This week I'm delighted to say we're joined by Nadia Urbanatti, one of the world's leading philosophers of democracy, but also someone who knows a lot about Italian politics.
0:18.3	And we are going to talk about Italian democracy.
0:25.0	Talking politics is brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books,
0:29.4	Europe's leading magazine of books and ideas. We've already had some LRB writers on this
0:33.8	podcast and we'll have some more soon. There's a reading list of pieces to accompany the
0:38.4	podcast at lrb.co.com.uk forward slash talking along with a special subscription offer for talking
0:45.2	politics listeners. 12 issues of fearless, expansive, elegant writing for just 12 pounds.
0:54.5	This week we're also joined by Helen Thompson.
0:57.0	Oh, I was actually on the first year this morning about Shumpeter.
0:59.8	Oh!
1:00.5	And I had a few five-star.
1:02.4	This is the podcast.
1:03.7	Let's just leave this in.
1:05.6	Ooh.
1:06.6	And we've got Chris Bickerton, who's written a lot about Italy in the past,
1:09.9	and knows quite a lot about what's going on there now.
1:11.9	A very interesting conversation with Wolfgang Muncao.
1:15.8	He's phenomenally interesting.
1:17.3	Is he?
1:18.6	I've been talking to lawyers.
1:20.5	Nothing more fun than talking to lawyers.
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