Unit HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- 10145009
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Fausto Proietti
- Teachers
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- Fausto Proietti
- Hours
- 63 ore - Fausto Proietti
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Formazione interdisciplinare
- Academic discipline
- SPS/02
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
Erasmus Students:
Erasmus students are invited to attend the course. Readings and other teaching materials are also available in English and French; the final exam may be discussed in English or French. A basic knowledge of Italian is, however, required. Please contact the teacher for an appointment before the beginning of the course. - Contents
- Lectures will focus on the main Western political texts (XVI-XX Centuries).
- Reference texts
- Texts for attending students:
The exam will focus on the contents covered in class and on the readings provided by the teacher and uploaded to Unistudium.
Texts for non-attending students:
J. Dunn, Storia delle dottrine politiche, Jaca Book, 2020;
J.-J. Chevallier, Le grandi opere del pensiero politico, Il Mulino 1998. - Educational objectives
- The course aims at providing the fundamental elements about the main political texts of Western history and the historical contexts in which they were conceived. The course aims also at providing the capability of analysing political texts.
- Prerequisites
- Basic notions of modern and contemporary history.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Other information
- Attendance is not compulsory; non-attending students will study using the recommended texts.
Link to students' satisfaction questionnaires (a.y. 2021/2022): https://sisvaldidat.it/AT-UNIPG/AA-2021/T-0/S-10028/Z-1288/CDL-L018/C-GEN/I-101450092YX101450092YXN0/TAVOLA - Learning verification modality
- Attending and non-attending students must sit a single oral exam, lasting about 30 minutes, based respectively on the contents of the lessons and the recommended texts.
For attending students only, in relation to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, the possibility of taking one or two intermediate written tests will be evaluated. - Extended program
- Lectures will focus on the main Western political texts (XVI-XX Centuries). Lectures will be focused on the contextualisation and commented reading of selected excerpts from the following texts:
- N. Machiavelli, The Prince
- J. Bodin, Six books of the Commonwealth
- Th. Hobbes, Leviathan
- J. Locke, The Second Treatise of Government
- Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
- J.-J. Rousseau, The Social Contract
- Publius, Federalist
- E. Sièyes, What is the Third State?
- A. De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- K. Marx and F. Engels, The Manifest of the Communist Party
- G. Mosca, Elements of Political Science
- H. Kelsen, Essence and Value of Democracy.