Conflitti difficilmente gestibili e i limiti della giustizia come interazione

In her exciting new book Interactive Justice (Routledge, 2016), Emanuela Ceva addresses an issue which has sadly fallen out of favour in contemporary political philosophy: the idea of conflict management. Conflicts are a constitutive element of democracy, and Ceva wants to convince us that with the exception of very rare, extreme cases (the unapologetic Nazi), all social actors involved in a conflict must be treated in morally acceptable terms. Despite the persuasive nature of this argument, which is presented in impeccably clear and scholarly fashion, we argue that there are some limits to Ceva's idea of interactive justice. In particular, we will argue that cases of unmanageable conflict are much more common than Ceva assumes. In the last analysis, we feel that there are many instances of conflict, as highlighted for example by Hume and Voltaire, that cannot be adequately addressed with the tools of interactive justice.