This volume examines the rise and apparent fall of 'neo-liberalism' by analyzing today's current climate, dominated by a range of political mediatic populisms that run across the contemporary political scene, and the failure of the multicultural paradigm in terms of the Lockean concept of tolerance.

Emanuela Fornari is Associate Professor in Ontology and Philosophical Hermeneutics at the University of Roma Tre. She obtaind a European PhD under the guidance of Giacomo Marramao, Manuel Cruz, Etienne Balibar and Salvador Giner. She is the author of many essays in Italian and international journals as well as several books translated into English (Davies Group, Suny Press), Spanish (Gedisa) and Portuguese (Eduvim). She is a columnist for the newspaper El Pais.