Learning objectives
<br />Abilityto analyse critically texts of political philosophy. Ability toreconstruct political-philosophical texts with argumentation. Abilityto work on written texts starting from a critical analysis ofconceptual and historiographic problems of the history of politicalphilosophy.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basic concepts and the main authors of the history of political philosophy.
Course unit content
<br />Politics of nature and social ontology.<br /><br /><br />T he course will deal with the relationship between concepts of nature and political <br />models, with reference to various moments in the history of thought and <br />then to the contemporary debate on the subject. Particular attention will be <br />given, in the historical-introductory part, to questions regarding the<br />position of the social community in the natural cosmos, to the relationship between state<br />of nature and civil state, individuality and natural right. This will be useful <br /> to clarify the anthropological definition of human nature with regard to the various <br /> political models and then to introduce critically the contemporary debate <br /> on the natural abilities assumed by the agent and on the <br />politicsof natural life (biopolitics). In the part taught through seminars, thelink between social ontology and political philosophy will be dealtwith in particular.
Bibliography
<br />1) G.W.F. Hegel, Filosofia dello spirito (1805-1806), in Filosofia dello spirito jenese, a cura di G. Cantillo, Laterza, Rome-Bari, 1983, pp. 69-175<br />- P. Ricoeur, Percorsi del riconoscimento, Cortina, Milan, 2005 (Third study, II-III: La sfida di Hobbes; Hegel a Jena), pp. 185-209<br /> <br />- I. Testa, Naturalmente sociali, in "Quaderni di Teoria Sociale", N. 5, 2005 <br /> <br />2) One text to be chosen from the following:<br />- R.D. Masters, The Nature of Politics, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989 (chs. 1-3)<br />- M.C. Nussbaum, L'intelligenza delle emozioni, il Mulino, Bologna, 2004 (chs. I-III)<br /><br />J. Searle, Linguaggio e potere, in Liberta e neurobiologia, Bruno Mondadori, Milan, 2005<br /><br />N. Chomsky, M. Foucault, Della natura umana. Invariante biologico e potere politico, Derive e Approdi, Rome, 2005<br />
