- Docente: Marina Lalatta Costerbosa
- Credits: 6
- SSD: IUS/20
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 8773)
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
Office hours
See the website of Marina Lalatta Costerbosa
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.