- Docente: Marina Lalatta Costerbosa
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 0975)
Course contents
Reflections on evil
The aim of the course is a rflection on the concept of evil
with regard to some important interpretation of the XXth century
like Arendt, Ricoeur, Levi, Améry.
Readings/Bibliography
H. Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963). H. Arendt, On Violence (1969). J. Améry, Intellettuale a Auschwitz, Bollati Boringhieri, Turin 2008. P. Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, Turin 2007. P. Ricoeur, Il male. Una sfida alla filosofia e alla teologia, Morcelliana, Brescia 1993. Pier Paolo Portinaro (a cura di), I concetti del male, Einaudi, Turin 2002, chap. by P.P. Portinaro on "Colpa", "Genocidio", "Ingiustizia", "Violenza", and Introduction.
Teaching methods
Lectures and discussion.
Assessment methods
Final examination.
Office hours
See the website of Marina Lalatta Costerbosa