POLITICS, SOCIETY AND COMMUNICATION

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: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
64
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (64 hours)
Requirements: 

None

Oral exam.
The learning will be verified by an oral exam.
The oral exam consists in a presentation of the themes seen during the course, and its purpose is the assessment of the candidate’s preparation on the texts in object, and his or her ability of give a critical interpretation of it.
The objects of the evaluation are:
1. the lexical property of the exposition (5 points);
2. the correctness of the conceptual analysis of the texts (10 points);
3. the acquisition of an effective learning methodology (5 points);
4. the critical ability and autonomy of the student (10 points).

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The Course aims to analyse the relationship between "politics", "society" and "communication" in our contemporaneity, in order to develop critical competences required to understand the political, sociological, psychological and ethical phenomena of contemporary society and its languages. The Course will be constructed with a cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, through philosophy and political philosophy alongside the communication strategies studied by sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis and other humanistic subjects.
In particular, the Course will focus each year on a topic that allows a multidisciplinary approach.

The Course will consider three different didactic and formative themes:
1. Identification and definition of a multidisciplinary concept; preliminary analysis of this concept through a philosophic and historical approach.
2. In-depth study of this concept, with reference to some classical works concerning different humanistic subjects.
3. Study of the communicative aspects connected with the main concept, using a multidisciplinary approach.

1. An elective choose from:
- Erasmo Silvio Storace, I linguaggi politici della civiltà occidentale: retorica, democrazia e populismo;
- Erasmo Silvio Storace, Eros e Thanatos.

2. An elective choose from:
- Platone, Simposio;
- Platone, Fedro;
- Platone, Il politico;
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Metafisica dell’amore sessuale;
- Carlo Michelstaedter, La persuasione e la rettorica;
- Michel Foucault, L'uso dei piaceri (La storia della sessualità, vol. 2);
- Herbert Marcuse, Eros e civiltà.

3. An elective choose from:
- AA. VV., La filosofia politica di Platone (a cura di Giulio Maria Chiodi);
- Claudio Bonvecchio, La maschera e l'uomo. Simbolismo, comunicazione e politica;
- Umberto Galimberti, Le cose dell’amore;
- Erasmo Silvio Storace, Meta(m)orphica: poesia e filosofia;
- AA.VV., L’eterno ritorno dell’estetica. Da e oltre Nietzsche;
- AA.VV., Carlo Michelstaedter: un’introduzione.

4. Only for non attending students, an elective choose from:
- AA.VV., Il potere sadico. Politica e nichilismo in D.A.F. de Sade;
- AA.VV., Carlo Michelstaedter: l’Essere come Azione.

N.b.: the students have to bring with them the books during the final exam.
The books can be of any available edition (provided that it is an unabridged version)

Convenzionale

Lectures.
The activities take place in frontal lessons, in which the teacher illustrates the course content asking for the interactive participation of the students by interventions, questions and reflexions, in a tight dialectical comparison between teacher and student.

Upon appointment via email (erasmo.storace@uninsubria.it).
Padiglione Morselli.