Left and Right ― The Great Dichotomy Revisited

Joao Cardoso Rosas (MA, University of Porto; PhD EUI - Florence) is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Minho and recurrent Visiting Professor in Lisbon and Madrid. He also has been Visiting Professor at Brown University and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His research interests include theories of justice, pluralism and human rights. His most recent books are Concepcoes da Justica [Conceptions of Justice] and Futuro Indefinido: Ensaios de Filosofia Politica [Indefinite Future: Essays in Political Philosophy]. He was president of the Portuguese Political Science Association between 2010 and 2012 and is currently president of the Portuguese Philosophical Society. Ana Rita Ferreira is a PhD student and Researcher in Political Science at the Institute of Political Studies of the Portuguese Catholic University and at the Centre of Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho. She also has been a visiting PhD student at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Mozambique. She holds a BA in Communication Sciences (Journalism stream) from the Social and Human Sciences Faculty of the New University of Lisbon, and a post-graduate degree in Political Science (Political Theory branch) from the Institute of Political Studies of the Portuguese Catholic University. Her main areas of interest are political ideologies and the role of the Welfare State. Her most recent publication is Ideologias Politicas Contemporaneas: Mudancas e Permanencias [Contemporary Political Ideologies: Changes and Permanencies], edited with Joao Cardoso Rosas.