- Docente: Elena Irrera
- Credits: 4
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8048)
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from Feb 21, 2024 to Apr 24, 2024
Learning outcomes
The workshop aims to introduce students to the critical reading and understanding of texts (primarily in political and social sciences), starting from the examination of significant cases. At the end of the workshop, students will have acquired the necessary skills to summarise, schematise (also in written form), contextualise and critically analyse theoretical, empirical and methodological aspects of the examined texts (volumes, journal essays, research reports, short articles).
Course contents
The workshop will engage students in the reading and analysis of essays and sectionsh of classical texts from the history of political thought and contemporary ethics. All the reading material will bear on notions like power, freedom, equality and democracy, and will allow students to develop instruments to critically interpret genesis, structure and evolutions across centuries of the ideals at issue.
Readings/Bibliography
Chapters and sections of books:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Du contrat social" (eng. tr. Ch. Betts, Oxford University Press, 1999)
- John Rawls, chapters of "A Theory of Justice" (Harvard University Press, Revised Edition, 1999), "Political Liberalism" (1993, Columbia University Press) e "The Law of Peoples With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" of John Rawls, Harvard University Press, 2001.
- Martha Nussbaum, "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism" (in A Philosophy for Global Ethics", Routledge 2009) and "Creating Capabilities" (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Articolo:
Deliberative Democracy: A Sympathetic Comment Author(s): Samuel Freeman Source: Philosophy & Public Affairs, Autumn, 2000, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 371-418.
Teaching methods
During the workshop, students will be encouraged to read, present, comment and discuss the texts and the themes addressed.
Assessment methods
Students will deliver a 10/15-minute presentation of one of the workshop readings, followed by questions by the other students. Alternatively, they can choose a subject to be agreed with the lecturer
Teaching tools
All the reading materials and powerpoint presentations, will be provided by the teacher and uploaded in the virtual spaces.
Office hours
See the website of Elena Irrera