00983 - History of Political Doctrines

Course contents

Forty hours will be focused on the analysis of the main concepts of modern political thought in their different articulations: authority, natural law, political subject, power, contract, State, sovereignty, representation, public sphere, rights, civil society, constitution, democracy, dialectic. Twenty hours will be focused on a close reading of one classical work in modern political thought (Niccolò Machiavelli's Il principe) and to the feminist critique of modern political discourse.

Optional seminars will be organized, too. The aim of the seminars is that of providing to the students a support, particularly in order to read and understand the texts of the main authors of the history of political doctrines.

Readings/Bibliography

FOR THOSE STUDENTS WHO WILL ATTEND CLASSES:

1)Manuale di storia del pensiero politico, a c. di C. Galli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 20113 (from chapter 3, to chapter 15 included;from chapter 3, to chapter 13 included for thestudents who will attend the classes for 6 CFU).

2)I grandi testi del pensiero politico. Antologia , a c. di C. Galli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 20112 (ten authors choosen by the student.Those students who will attend the classes for 6 CFU must choose only 6 authors)

The consultation of R. Esposito-C. Galli (a c. di),Enciclopedia del pensiero politico, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005² is suggested.

3) N. Machiavelli, Il principe, Torino, Einaudi, 2005.

4) W. Brown,La politica fuori dalla storia, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012,Prefazioneby P. Rudan and chapters 1, 2, 6.

- C. Pateman,Il Contratto sessuale, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1997, chapter 1.

- P. Rudan,Sulla critica femminista dell'ordine liberale. In margine a un libro di Wendy Brown, in "Storicamente", 2007, n. 3, http://www.storicamente.org/03rudan.htm

- P. Rudan,Il centro eccentrico. Le donne, il femminismo e il soggetto a sesso unico, in "Filosofia politica", 2011, n. 3, pp. 365-383.

(Texts of section 4), Brown's one excluded, will be collected in a file which will be made available for the students).

FOR THOSE STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT ATTEND CLASSES:

The students who will not attend the classes must study the following volumes in full:

1)Manuale di storia del pensiero politico, a c. di C. Galli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 20113
2)I grandi testi del pensiero politico. Antologia, a c. di C. Galli, Bologna, Il Mulino, 20112

Teaching methods

The course consists in frontal lessons and it is articulated into two sections. The first one aims at furnishing the conceptual instruments and the proper lexicon of the history of modern political thought, while the second one introduces students to a direct understanding of a classical text in history of political thought, and of a system of radical critique of modernity.

Assessment methods

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL ATTEND THE CLASSES

Oral examination focused on the contents of the course and the texts, that will take place in the dates established during the year.

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT ATTEND THE CLASSES

Oral examination in order to ascertain the qualification of the students about the program assigned.

Office hours

See the website of Raffaele Laudani

See the website of Carlo Galli