28113 - History of Political Doctrines (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the class, the students acquire a knowledge of the basic conceptual structures regulating the relationship between political system, geopolitics and territory during the modern age and on a global scale.

Course contents

The course analyzes the political meaning of negative thought in its different articulations, in order to point out the historical and political aspects of the crisis of rationalism and dialectic thought, particularly concerning the re-spatialization of the world enacted by technic.

Readings/Bibliography

  a) Institutional part: C. Galli, E. Greblo, S. Mezzadra, Il pensiero politico del Novecento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007

- The students who already made the exam of history of political thought will read, instead of this text, one book choosen between the following ones:

1.       C. Galli, Contingenza e necessità nella ragione politica moderna, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009 (capp. 1, 2, 6, 7)

2.       C. Galli, Genealogia della politica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010 (capp. 1, 2, 3)

 

b) Monographic part:

1) F. Volpi, Nichilismo, Laterza, 1996 (the whole book)

2) The sections indicated by professor Galli during the classes from the texts listed below:

F. Nietzsche, Volontà di potenza, Bompiani, 1992

M. Weber, Il lavoro intellettuale come professione, Einaudi, 1980

C. Schmitt, Teologia politica, in Id., Le categorie del ‘politico', Il Mulino, 1972

Jünger-Heidegger, Oltre la Linea, Adelphi, 1989

M. Heidegger, La questione della tecnica, in Id., Saggi e discorsi, Mursia, 1980, pp. 5-27

 

The consultation of  R. Esposito-C. Galli (a c. di), Enciclopedia del pensiero politico, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005² is suggested

The students who will not attend classes must agree with Professor Galli about their program, during his weekly office hours or by e-mail.

Teaching methods

The course consists in frontal lessons and aims to introduce the students to the understanding of the conceptual and categorial dynamics of modern and contemporary political thought, also through the critical reading of some classical text of the history of political doctrines.

Optional seminars – held by professor Galli's assistants – will be organized. The aim of the seminars is that of furnishing to the students a support, particularly in order to read and understand the texts of the main authors of the history of political doctrines.

Assessment methods

FOR THE STUDENTS WHO WILL AND WILL NOT ATTEND THE CLASSES

Oral examination in order to ascertain the understanding of the history of political thought and of the main political concepts presented during the course.

Teaching tools

None

Office hours

See the website of Carlo Galli