POLITICS AND IDEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
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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.
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 three parts; in the first, the course profiles will address a political and philosophical notion of the concept of ideology and distopia and an analysis of the ideological systems in history, like the Stalinist one and the Nazi ideology. Goebbels' Speeches. The second part will focus on the debate on the decline of ideologies and the ideology as a Literary Problem. Cimourdain by Victor Hugo and Rubasciov by Arthur Koestler. In the third part we will analyze the relationship between the Jacobin leaders and narcissism.
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
L. Daris, Educare alla Rivoluzione
F. Furet, Il passato di un'illusione
K. Mannheim Ideologia e utopia
R. Stella, L'ideologia infinita
E. Topisch, A che serve l'ideologia
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