POLITICS AND IDEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Communication Sciences
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2018/2019
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
8
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
64
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (64 hours)
Requirements: 

None

Oral exam. During the text, the candidate is required to answer four questions, two for each part of the course. The final mark will be based on the following criteria: 60% accuracy and quality of answer, 30% ability to motivate statements, 10 % abilities shown during exam.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The course aims to offer the students the tools to evaluate, in the most rigorous way possible, whether a given current of thought or a specific world view can be traced back to the world of ideology or if it is characterized the same structural features of ideologie.

The course will be divided into two parts; in the first, the course profiles will address a political and philosophical notion of the concept of ideology and an analysis of the ideological systems in history, like the Stalinist one and the Nazi ideology. The second part will focus on the debate on the decline of ideologies.

Three texts chosen among the following list:
H. Arendt, Le origini del totalitarismo
R.Aron, L'oppio degli intellettuali
H. Barth, Verità e ideologia
D. Bell, La fine dell'ideologia
R. Boudon, L'ideologia
F. Crespi, Ideologia e produzione di senso nella società contemporanea
F. Furet, Il passato di un'illusione
A. Izzo, Il concetto di ideologia
K. Mannheim Ideologia e utopia
C. Mongardini, Ideologia e societ
R. Stella, L'ideologia infinita
E. Topisch, A che serve l'ideologia

Convenzionale

Classes and seminars. During the course, some videos of speeches of politicians will be shown, to analyze, with a group work, whether ideological or not.

The professor is available to meet with students after each lesson, without appointment. For any further communication related to the examination, contact via email: luca.daris@uninsubria.it

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