HISTORY OF POLITICAL DOCTRINES

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA DELLE DOTTRINE POLITICHE
Course code
FT0551 (AF:360051 AR:188744)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
SPS/02
Period
2nd Term
Course year
1
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The course will be an introduction to some main authors and ideas in the history of political thought.
The students will acquire knowledge of the theoretical structure of the main strands of history of political thought through the study of an author or of a topic.
They will acquire an adequate comprehension philosophical and political issues and the deepening of their specificities and also historiografical interpretations.
No previous knowledge required.
The course will focus on Machiavelli's political thought and we will read and study the Prince.
The precise program of the course, including books texts, essays, will be communicated later.
Provisional program:
Il Principe, a cura di C. Donzelli, G. Pedullà, Donzelli, Roma 2013. Questa è l'edizione che sarà utilizzata durante il corso, ma ogni edizione va bene, purché commentata.

E. Cutinelli-Rendina - R. Ruggiero, Machiavell, Carocci, Roma 2018, in particolare, pp. 17-42; pp. 71-135.
The modality of examination consists in an oral exam, but the precise nature of the exam will be explained at the beginning of the course.
Traditional frontal teaching.
Italian
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 21/09/2021