1. Political Role and Government of "Fear" in Modern and
Contemporary Ages, focusing in particulary on the institutional
changes of and political devices for governing fear in the
Baroque Period.
2.The Italian philosophy in Italian culture and
politics at the end of XIX century.
3.Dutch philosophy in the "Golden Age".
1. Political Role and Government of "Fear" in Modern and
Contemporary Ages, focusing in particulary on the institutional
changes of and political devices for governing fear in the
Baroque Period.
Political and philosophical thoughts of Montaigne, Hobbes and
Spinoza are compared with some contemporary theories about
governing fear in the global era (Bauman, Simon, Furedi, Zolo), in
order to compare different models of political powers and theories
concerning crisis.
2.Philosophy in Italy at the end of XIX century.
3.Dutch philosophy in the "Golden Age" with specific regard to the
philosophy of Spinoza, Dutch cartesianism, and the diffusion of
Ramism in Dutch political establishment during the Dordrecht's
Sinode (1618-1619).
