28109 - Philosophy of Law (1) (2nd cycle)

Learning outcomes

Basic knowledges, specific methodologies and critical abilities with regard to the most relevant issues in philosophy of law and human rights.

Course contents

The Roots of Social Violence. Hannah Arendt as a Starting Point

This monographic Course is dedicated to Hannah Arendt’s thought with particular regard to the problem of political violence and moral evil. Arendt is became an indispensable point of reference for contemporary debate on individual and collective extreme violence.  Arendt’s The Origin of Totalitarianism and The Banality of Evil are two undisputed milestones in the philosophical reflection on the mass consent to enacted evil and on the concept of moral personal responsibility.

Class Schedule

I semester

mo, tu, we

11-13, classroom A (C.trecento) and on TEAMS.

starting date: sept. 21, 2020.

Readings/Bibliography

Hannah Arendt, La banalità del male, Milan, Feltrinelli, 2013 (or English version).

Hannah Arendt, Le origini del totalitarismo, Turin, Einaudi, 2009, Prefaces and Part III, p. LV-LXXXII and 423-656, (or English version).

Hannah Arendt, Responsabilità e giudizio, Turin, Einaudi, 2010, Preface and Part I, p. 3-164.

 

Optional Readings:

Alberto Burgio, Critica della ragione razzista, Rome, DeriveApprodi, 2020.

Alberto Burgio, Marina Lalatta Costerbosa, Orgoglio e genocidio. L’etica dello sterminio nella Germania nazista, Rome, DeriveApprodi, 2016.

Peter Fritzsche, Vita e morte nel Terzo Reich, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2010.

Gordon J. Horwitz, All'ombra della morte. La vita quotidiana attorno al campo di Mauthausen, Venice, Marsilio, 2004, (or English version).

Julia Kristeva, Hannah Arendt. La vita, le parole, Rome, Donzelli, 2005.

La costruzione del futuro. Il Bauhaus a cento anni dalla fondazione, ed. by Marina Lalatta Costerbosa, «quaderni di dianoia», 1, 2019.

Marina Lalatta Costerbosa, Il bambino come nemico. L’eccezione humboldtiana, Rome, DeriveApprodi, 2019.

Robert J. Lifton, I medici nazisti. Storia degli scienziati che divennero i torturatori di Hitler, Milan, BUR, 2016, (or English version).

Alexander Mitscherlich, Margarete Mitscherlich, Germania senza lutto. Psicoanalisi del postnazismo, Florence, Sansoni, 1970.

The Syllabus is valid for both attending and non-attending students.

Teaching methods

Lectures and discussion.

Interdisciplinary seminars will be hold by experts working in the field.

Assessment methods

Final oral examination. Room 5.01 (str. Zamboni 38) or on TEAMS. 

On September there will be an examination schedule.

 

Evaluating criteria:

1. Expertise; practical reasoning ability; critical competence.

Notes:

18-21/30 basic level

22-25/30 moderate level

26-28/30 good level

29-30/30 excellent level.

Teaching tools

http://www.sifd.eu/

Links to further information

http://Si consiglia di consultare regolarmente la pagina web "Contenuti utili" del Portale personale della docente.

Office hours

See the website of Marina Lalatta Costerbosa