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CODE 57031
ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SPS/02
LANGUAGE Italiano
TEACHING LOCATION
SEMESTER 2° Semester

OVERVIEW

The course presents the outlines of the History of Political Thought from Ancient times to the state being contemporary. The analysis of the most remarkable authors on political power, its characteristics and forms will be examined in depth. They will be studied through a historical and problematic contextualization. Therefore, the history of the debate on politics will be reconstructed by stressing its links to the socio-political contexts and its ideological implications.

AIMS AND CONTENT

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

1) Politics in ancient Greece

2) Socrates

3) Plato

4) Aristotle

5) Cicero

6) Religion and politics: Christianity

7) Augustine of Hippo

8)Thomas Aquinas

9) Dante, Marsilius

10) Machiavelli

11) Bodin, Suarez

12) The “ragion di Stato”

13) Hobbes

14) Spinoza

15) Locke

16) Vico

17) Montesquieu

18) Rousseau

19) Hume e Smith

20) The Federalist Papers

21) Burke

22) Kant

23) Hegel

24) Owen

25) Saint-Simon

26) Constant

27) Tocqueville

28) Rosmini

29) Mazzini

30) Proudhon

31) Marx, Engels

32) Stuart Mill

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Suggested readings

- M. D’ADDIO, Storia delle dottrine politiche, Genova, ECIG, 2002.

- C. MORGANTI, Comunità e Stato, Europa e Occidente. La politica secondo Guardini, Firenze, Centro Editoriale Toscano, (in corso di stampa).

Students who do not attend the course must study one of these supplementary texts:

- A. CATANZARO - S. LAGI (a cura di), Monisms and Pluralisms in the History of Political Thought, Edizioni Epoké, Novi Ligure (AL), 2016.

- F. FALCHI, Giuseppe Mazzini: la democrazia europea e i diritti delle donne, Firenze, Centro Editoriale Toscano, 2011. 

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ANDREA CATANZARO (President)

PEJMAN ABDOLMOHAMMADI

ALBERTO DE SANCTIS

CARLO MORGANTI

STEFANO PARODI

CARLOTTA STEGAGNO

DAVIDE SUIN

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral assessment

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
25/05/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale
08/06/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale
29/06/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale
14/09/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale