Unit CULTURAL HISTORY IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- GP005254
- Curriculum
- Storia europea
- Teacher
- Luca La Rovere
- Teachers
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- Luca La Rovere
- Hours
- 36 ore - Luca La Rovere
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, filosofiche, antropologiche e sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Fascism/fascisms. A comparative and transnational perspective
- Reference texts
- Per i frequentanti:
E. Gentile, Il fascismo. Storia e interpretazione, Laterza, 2003.
Per i non frequentanti:
E. Gentile, Il fascismo. Storia e interpretazione, Laterza, 2003.
Più un volume a scelta tra i seguenti:
R. De Felice, Le interpretazioni del fascismo, Laterza, varie edizioni.
A. De Bernardi, Una dittatura moderna. Il fascismo come problema storico, Bruno Mondadori, 2001.
S. Payne, Il Fascismo. Origini, storia e declino delle dittature che si sono imposte tra le due guerre, Newton & Compton, 1995. Da studiare soltanto: Introduzione; cap. 6, 8, 11 (i primi 5 paragrafi), 13, 14,15.
A. Campi (a cura di), Che cos'è il fascismo. Interpretazioni e prospettive di ricerca, Ideazione editrice, 2003 (Introduzione, pp. 3-36; 97-124; 189-212, 251-374 - Educational objectives
- Students are expected to reach a deep knowledge of the course’s main topics. They will be able to deal with the bibliography on the course’s topic, confront and discuss the main historiographical thesis and interpretations, identify and assess with a critical attitude sources, documents, and testimony. Moreover, they will be able to illustrate and discuss before an audience a short presentation.
- Prerequisites
- Students should have a good knowledge of Nineteenth and Twentieth century general history as a condition for attending the course and being allowed to the final exam.
- Teaching methods
- First part (18 hours): face-to-face lessons on the general aspects of the course’s topics; presentation of sources and documents; audiovisual and multimedia projection. Second part (18 hours): students’ oral presentations and discussion of the arguments assigned by the teacher.
- Other information
- Students are warmly invited to register to the course’s page on Unstudium (https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/) in order to receive every information about the course and by the teacher. They will also find on the same digital platform the materials and sources presented by the teacher during the lectures.
- Learning verification modality
- The evaluation of the knowledge achieved by the student is carried out during the whole course. It takes into account his/her regular attendance at the lectures (at least 75% of the total duration of the course), his/her participation at the debate, his/her oral presentation of an argument previously agreed together with the teacher, his/her final oral exam.
- Extended program
- Italian fascism represented a new form of political movement and regime, based on militarization of politics, an anti-ideologic ideology, the cult of the leader, the exaltation of violence as a tool for destroying the old liberal-bourgeois order, the permanent mobilization of the masses. Even if not all the would be fascist movements went to power, in the interwar period various forms of fascism rooted in Europe.
The course aims to give an account of the history of fascisms, reconsider the interpretations of fascist phenomenon (both coeval and subsequent), identify, in the light of the most recent theories, a general definition of fascism. Moving from the Italian experience, the field of observation will be enlarged to include the varieties of European fascism (Nazism, Spanish Falange, Austrian Heimwehr, Romanian Iron guard, ecc.