- Docente: Sandro Mezzadra
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SPS/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sociology and Social Work (cod. 8786)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
The course aims at providing students with a sketch of the main
contemporary debates surrounding the topic of power. It will
particularly focus on the work of Michel Foucault during the 1970s,
introducing such concepts as discipline, biopolitics,
governmentality, subjection, subjectivation.
Readings/Bibliography
Suggested bibliographical references for the exam:
A. Michel Foucault,
Poteri e strategie
, Milano, Mimesis, 2014.
B. One book to be chosen among the following:
Michel
Foucault, Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della
prigione
, Torino, Einaudi, 1976.
Michel Foucault, Il discorso, la storia, la verità. Interventi
1969-1984, Torino, Einaudi, 2001.
Michel Foucault, Bisogna difendere la società, Milano,
Feltrinelli, 2009.
Michel Foucault, Sicurezza, territorio, popolazione, Milano,
Feltrinelli, 2007.
Michel Foucault, Nascita della biopolitica, Milano,
Feltrinelli, 2012.
Further bibliographical references will be suggested during the
course. Students who are not going to attend classes can get in
touch with the professor to propose and discuss changes to the
suggested reading list.
Teaching methods
Lectures will be combined with seminars, with direct involvement of students and possible participation of external guests.
Assessment methods
The exam will be oral. It is also possible to present a working paper, to be discussed during the exam.
Teaching tools
The course presupposes a basic knowledge of the history of modern
and contemporary political philosophy. Students who do not have
such knowledge in their curriculum can use one of the following
texts:
S.S. Wolin, Politics and Vision. Continuity and Innovation
in Western Political Thought, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University
Press, 2006
C. Galli (ed), Manuale di storia del pensiero politico,
Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011
A. Pandolfi (ed), Nel pensiero politico moderno, Roma,
Manifestolibri, 2004
Links to further information
http://unibo.academia.edu/SandroMezzadra
Office hours
See the website of Sandro Mezzadra