MODERN HISTORY 2

Academic year
2018/2019 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA MODERNA 2
Course code
LT0910 (AF:248338 AR:135894)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Subdivision
Class 2
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
M-STO/02
Period
1st Semester
Course year
2
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The Enlightenment of the Philosophers and the Enlightenment of the Historians: Politics, Culture and Communication in the Late Enlightenment.

The course takes place at the second year of the LCSL "Political and International" curriculum and intends to provide a further critical analysis step in the historical and historical-cultural subjects for the students of the course, asking what is the premise of passing an exam mod. 1 of Modern History or of Contemporary History (exam of I year)
Knowledge and understanding:
• Knowledge of the methods of analysis of the specific areas of historiographical research in relation to the different types of sources (of political and institutional history, religious, social and cultural, literary, artistic and performative);
• knowledge and framing of origins and dynamics of the development of European diversities and their extracontinent colonial transferts, up to the current global geopolitical framework (cultures, religious, political, economic institutions);
• knowledge and understanding of the main dynamics of interaction between the cultures of the different European realities and of the globalized world
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• ability to articulate a coherent historical framework of the events that are at the origin of the development of the contemporary world, to distinguish the different factors of this historical development and of today's approach to globalized modernity, ability to analyze historical political dynamics;
• ability to recognize the different types of historiographical research in relation to the kind of historical sources used, with the conscious use of the historiographical categories;
• ability to autonomously initiate investigations on specific cases related to the thesis topic
To attend the course you must have already taken a first-year history exam (module 1: Modern History or Contemporary History). The course is structured on the learning needs of the students of the "political-international" curriculum, but can be attended (as free-choice exam) by all the members of the LCSL CdS
First aim of the course is to define the different points of view between historians and philosophers about the genesis and the thought itself in the Enlightenment Age. The course will chronicle the origins of the Enlightenment’s philosophy, outlining those aspects, markets and elements that still exist in current interpretations.
Starting from this, we will go through the guiding ideas of that historical world, its specific system of values , languages , representations, practices, institutions, sociability, comunication mechanisms and limits. It will appear as a guide to a correct historical analysis of the Enlightenment’s processes occurred in the last decades of the late Modern Age (1769-1789) - the extraordinary success of an ancient project. The Enlightment spread his hegemony all over Europe for the last two decades. In the past people used to be confused about some of its aspect. It has been even seen as a crisis moment, even as the death of the great classical Enlightenment; but it was in fact the climax of a deep transformation of the occidents identity. Through literature, theater and arts Enlightment’s thought became a real social, political and globalizing existential dimension among the élites in Europe.

ATTENDING STUDENTS:

Gli appunti delle lezioni e il volume V. FERRONE, Lezioni Illuministiche, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010



NON ATTENDING STUDENTS:
the book V. FERRONE, Lezioni Illuministiche, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010; one book at your own choice in list A, and one book at your own choice in list B
Lista A

•BREWER, J., I piaceri dell'immaginazione. La cultura inglese del Settecento (trad. it.), Roma, Carocci, 1999
•L’Illuminismo. Dizionario storico, a cura di V. Ferrone e D. Roche, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997
•LILTI, A., Le monde des salons. Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Fayard, 2005
•MORNET, D., Le origini intellettuali della Rivoluzione francese, 1715-1789 (trad. it.), Milano, Jaca Book, 1982
•ROCHE, D., Le siècle des Lumières en province. Académies et académiciens provinciaux, 1680-1789, La Haye-Paris, Mouton-Editions EHESS, 1978

Lista B

•CROW, Th., Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Yale University Press, 1985 [trad. fr.: La peinture et son public à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Macula, 2000]
•DARNTON, R., Libri proibiti. Pornografia, satira e utopia all'origine della Rivoluzione francese (trad. it.), Milano, Mondadori, 1997
•DE NEGRONI, B., Lectures interdites. Le travail des censeurs au XVIIIe siècle (1723-1774), Paris, Albin Michel, 1995
•EDELSTEIN, D., The Enlightenment. A genealogy, Chicago and London, Chicago University Press, 2010
•MAZA, S., Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célébres of Prerevolutionary France, Berkley, University of California Press, 1993 (anche in trad. fr.: Vies privées, affaires publiques. Les causes célèbres de la France prérévolutionnaire, Paris, Fayard, 1997)
The oral exam, with an average duration of about 20 minutes, will focus on at least two topics covered during the lessons and aims at a cross-examination of the student's preparation and of his ability to show and coordinate the topics covered by the course. ability to link different topics.

In carrying out the oral examination the student must demonstrate a) to know how to articulate a coherent historical and cultural framework of themes and events that are at the origin of the development of our modern secular society, based on the principle of tolerance and inclusion; b) to know and be able to adequately frame the origins and dynamics of the development of the diversity of the different European areas examined; c) to distinguish, in a comparative key, the different factors of historical, political, cultural, religious development of European civilization in the second modern age and its historiography; d) to be able to adequately comment on the complex of historical and historiographical sources analyzed in class e) to consciously use the historiographical categories used during the lessons; f) demonstrate an adequate maturity in starting in-depth studies and reflections on specific cases related to the course topics.
lectures, with the aid of music and iconology; comment of the sources
Italian
Attending students will be required to print and bring to the classroom a paper version of the texts that will be read during the lessons, downloadable in pdf from the Moodle section of this webpage.
oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 23/09/2018