HISTORY OF POLITICAL DOCTRINES
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
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- Bibliography
- Delivery method
- Teaching methods
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A final oral examination concerning the readings suggested for both the general and monographic parts of the course. Assessment will take into account the expositive clearness, the knowledge of the general outline of the subject, the critical considerations, the ability in making connections between the general questions and the topics emerged in the suggested readings, and the consistency of answers to questions.
The expected learning outcomes include:
- Knowledge of the main political doctrines elaborated in the early-modern and modern age
- Capacity to understand and describe the policical doctrines
- Understanding and command of the specialistic vocabulary
- Ability in deepening the knowledge of the topics proposed through a crititical reading of textx and the autonomous assessment of the related problems
- Capacity to interpret, explain and disseminate the information acquired in light of the historical processes.
To understand the complexity and the theoretical roots of today’s political debate, the first part of the course (approximately 30 hours) will focus on the main traditions of the early-modern and modern political thought (republicanism, liberalism, socialism, totalitarianism, democracy, women’s political thought) by exploring some of the most representative authors and works.
The second monographic part (approximately 34 hours) will explore the tradition of the utopian and dystopian political thought.
GENERAL PART
- Raffaella Gherardi (ed.), La politica e gli stati. Problemi e figure del pensiero occidentale, Roma, Carocci, 2011 and following (previous editions are not admitted)
MONOGRAPHIC PART
- Roberto Mordacci, Ritorno a Utopia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2020
- Lidia De Michelis, Giulia Iannaccaro e Alessandro Vescovi (ed.), Il fascino inquieto dell’utopia. Percorsi storici e letterari in onore di Marialuisa Bignami, 2014 (available at the link https://books.openedition.org/ledizioni/455?lang=it), 4 essays to choose from those comprised among pp. 21-182.
The educational objectives of the Course will be achieved through 64 lecture hours. The second part of the course, organized in form of seminar, will make use of different kinds of sources (movies, tv series, literature, and the classics of the utopian/dystopian genre) in order to provide a proper understanding of the methods and scopes of the historical political research.
Students are required to previously schedule a meeting by sending an e-mail to the lecturer (chiara.continisio@uninsubria.it).