00983 - History of Political Doctrines

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International Development and Cooperation (cod. 8890)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students: - know the fundamental features of the modern and contemporary History of Political Thought, - know the main forms of political communication and understand the complex relationships between ideas and facts, - know the most important political doctrines and are able to critically analyze them in connection with the relevant cultural, institutional, historical and social context,- is able to understand the most important political and institutional changes in Western history.

Course contents

Through the methodological tools provided by constitutional history and history of political concepts, the course aims to reconstruct the history of modern and contemporary political thought, highlighting both its continuities and ruptures. Modern political concepts are then analyzed according to the following periodization: the phase of their first emergence in seventeenth century, the age of revolutionary change, and finally the current global transition. A particular attention will be paid to the following concepts: politics, state, government, citizenship, tolerance, revolution, people, freedom, society, colonization, slavery.

Readings/Bibliography

1) All the students must study the following text:

R. GHERARDI (a cura di), La politica e gli Stati. Problemi e figure del pensiero occidentale , Roma, Carocci, 2011.

2)Other Texts

N. MACHIAVELLI, Il principe, Torino, Einaudi, 2013 (o qualsiasi altra edizione integrale); assieme a N. MACHIAVELLI, Discorsi sulla prima deca di Tito Livio, Milano, Rizzoli, 2000: solo il Libro I (o qualsiasi altra edizione integrale).

T. HOBBES, Leviatano, Roma, Laterza, 2018: solo la prima e la seconda parte (o qualsiasi altra edizione integrale).

J. LOCKE, Il secondo trattato sul governo. Saggio concernente la vera origine, l'estensione e il fine del governo civile, Milano, Rizzoli, 2004 (o qualsiasi altra edizione integrale).

B. SPINOZA, Trattato politico, Pisa, ETS, 2010 (o qualsiasi altra edizione integrale).

J.J. ROUSSEAU, Il contratto sociale, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2014 (o qualsiasi altra edizione integrale); assieme a J.J. Rousseau, Origine della disuguaglianza, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2013 (o qualsiasi altra edizione integrale del Discorso sull'origine e i fondamenti dell'ineguaglianza tra gli uomini).

La dichiarazione di indipendenza degli Stati Uniti d'America, a cura di Tiziano Bonazzi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2003; Il Federalista, Bologna, Il mulino, 1997: solo gli articoli da 1 a 10 e da 39 a 51.

I. KANT, Scritti di storia, politica e diritto, Roma, Laterza, 2009.

M. RICCIARDI, Il potere temporaneo. Karl Marx e la politica come critica della società, Milano, Meltemi, 2019.

I «Quaderni del carcere» di Antonio Gramsci. Un'antologia, Roma, Carocci, 2014.

C. SCHMITT, Le categorie del «politico». Saggi di teoria politica, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013.

C. PATEMAN, Il contratto sessuale. I fondamenti nascosti della società moderna, Bergamo, Moretti & Vitali, 2015.

M. Ricciardi, Rivoluzione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons.

Assessment methods

For students regularly attending the course, there will be both an intermediate test and a written final check of the preparation within the course, during which they will have to demonstrate their knowledge of the Manual and of a work in group 2.

Students not attending the course will have to take the overall examination in a single oral exam in which they will have to demonstrate their knowledge of the Manual and two works in group 2.

Links to further information

https://unibo.academia.edu/MaurizioRicciardi

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Ricciardi

SDGs

No poverty Gender equality Reduced inequalities Peace, justice and strong institutions

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.