In memory of Nicolao Merker

Published

2026-01-13

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v35i.4593

Authors

  • Stefano Gensini Università di Roma Sapienza

Keywords:

History of Germany, Marxism, nationalism, colonialism, populism

Abstract

On 6th June 2017 many colleagues, friends and pupils of Nicolao Merker met at the Department of Philosophy of the University “La Sapienza” in Rome, in order to remember the great scholar after few months of his death. It was the occasion for reflecting on the important role played by Merker in the Italian culture of the last decades, as well as on the most relevant themes which were at the core of his long and prolific intellectual path: from the political and cultural history of modern Germany to the transformations of Marxism, from the nationalism/colonialism nexus to the populist issue. The focus published in this issue of the «Journal of Constitutional History» gathers the contributions of that day of studies, in a polyphonic dialogue which is also an endorsement of the extraordinary rich- ness and modernity of that research path.

Author Biography

Stefano Gensini, Università di Roma Sapienza

Professore ordinario di Filosofia e teoria dei linguaggi, Dipartimento di Filosofia.