29358 - Ideologies and Political Legitimation

Course contents

This year the course is dedicated to "Neoliberalism as an ideology." The neo-liberal ideology will be investigated as a set of political doctrines and discourses able to impose a peculiar conception of the social and political reality, as well as of the possible forms of individual and collective action. Particular attention will therefore be given to the ways through which it redefines the concepts of individual, society, history, State, justice, market and capitalism. By analysing the texts that have established the canon of neoliberalism, the aim of the course is to define which are the main features of the neoliberal social order and the deep changes that it has imposed to the understanding of social and political power.

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliography 

Section A 
P. Dardot - C. Laval, La nuova ragione del mondo. Critica della razionalità neoliberale, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2013. 

A. Somma, La Germania e l'economia sociale di mercato, Torino, Centro Einaudi, 2014 ( http://www.centroeinaudi.it/images/abook_file/Q_Somma_n1_2014.pdf)

Section B    
Friedrich A von Hayek, La via della schiavitù (1944), Milano, Rusconi, 1995.

Friedrich A. von Hayek, Nuovi studi di filosofia, politica, economia e storia delle idee, Roma, Armando editore, 1988, solo la Parte seconda: Politica, pp. 81-179.

Friedrich A. von Hayek, Studi di filosofia, politica ed economia, Soveria Mannelli, Rubettino, 1998, solo la Parte seconda: Politica, pp. 253-435.

Ludwig von Mises, In nome dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012.

Ludwig von Mises, Burocrazia, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2011.

Ludwig von Mises, Libertà e proprietà, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.

Ludwig Von Mises, Individuo, mercato e Stato di diritto, Soveria Mannelli Rubbettino, 1998.

Wilhelm Röpke, Democrazia ed economia: l'umanesimo liberale nella civitas humana, Bologna Il mulino, 2004

Milton Friedman, Capitalismo e libertà, Torino, IBL libri, 2010.

Teaching methods

In the first part of the course  the general traits of neo-liberalism as an ideology will be reconstructed, thus pointing out its fundamental concepts and introducing its principal authors. The second part of the course will be a seminar. During the seminar, students will have the opportunity to present and discuss critical texts previously chosen together with the professor.

Assessment methods

For students attending the course the verification will take place either with an oral exam or through the assessment of  a paper written after the course.

The students who do not attend the course can provide a paper of 3000 words concerning texts chosen with the agreement of professor Ricciardi, or they can sustain an oral examination about the two texts of section A) and a text of section B) of the bibliography here provided.

All papers must include on the top of the first page first and last name of the student and the texts on which the paper is drawn up. They can be delivered by hand or be sent by mail at least 10 days before the date chosen for the exam.

Links to further information

https://unibo.academia.edu/MaurizioRicciardi

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Ricciardi