Aldo Schiavone founded the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, where he was Professor of Roman Law. He is the principal investigator of a European Research Council Project on Roman legal thought, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of books including The End of the Past, The Invention of Law in the West, Spartacus, What Is Progress, and Pontius Pilate.
Schiavone has written a considered and considerable monograph,
which is worthy of the magnitude of its subject-matter: equality.
His knowledge of political thought is both deep and broad…and his
combining of historical inquiry with conceptual work
successful.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
A bold, original book—learned without ever being pedantic, engaging
without being frivolous, highly personal without ever being
self-referential. It takes the reader through a vast body of
European literature without ever losing its way. In the end, the
reader will come away with far deeper, more nuanced understanding
of what ‘equality’ has come to mean over the centuries, what it
should mean for us today, and what its possible future might
be.
*Anthony Pagden, author of The Pursuit of Europe*
Schiavone displays here extraordinary historic, legal, and
philosophical knowledge, enabling him to cover the full span of
Western history with great erudition.
*Roberto Esposito, author of Politics and Negation*
The Pursuit of Equality in the West is one of the most richly
detailed, original, and thought-provoking books I have ever read.
Only Aldo Schiavone could have given us such a lucid and cogent
study.
*Massimo Ciavolella, University of California, Los Angeles*
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