Unit POLITIC CULTURES AND IDEOLOGIES IN THE MODERN WORLD

Course
European legal integration and human rights
Study-unit Code
A000382
Location
PERUGIA
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Lorenzo Coccoli
Teachers
  • Lorenzo Coccoli
Hours
  • 36 ore - Lorenzo Coccoli
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2022
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Storico
Academic discipline
SPS/02
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Just War and the Right to Resistance: Contemporary Theories of Legitimate Violence
The class aims to offer an overview of the main contemporary political cultures from the particular perspective of a precise problem: that is, the way in which they try to define the limits of the justified use of violence in both inter- and infra-state conflicts. The most recent geopolitical upheavals have brought the traditional topic of the ius ad bellum back to the center of the public debate - from which it had never completely disappeared – and, correlatively, the right to oppose the illegitimate use of force.
Reference texts
Materiali e Testi per i frequentanti
Oltre agli appunti delle lezioni, un testo (o coppia di testi) a scelta tra le opzioni seguenti:
- F. Fanon, I dannati della terra, Einaudi, Torino, qualsiasi edizione.
- M. Walzer, Esodo e rivoluzione, Feltrinelli, Milano, qualsiasi edizione; insieme a P. Virno, Virtuosismo e rivoluzione. La teoria politica dell’esodo, in Id., L’idea di mondo. Intelletto pubblico e uso della vita, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2015.
- J. Butler, Vite precarie. I poteri del lutto e della violenza, Postmedia books, Milano, 2013; insieme a L. Muraro, Dio è violent, nottetempo, Roma, 2012.
- L. Scuccimarra, Proteggere l’umanità. Sovranità e diritti umani nell’epoca globale, il Mulino, Bologna, 2016.
- L. Ceci, La fede armata. Cattolici e violenza politica nel Novecento, il Mulino, Bologna, 2022.
- A. Malm, Come far saltare un oleodotto. Imparare a combattere in un mondo che brucia, Ponte alle Grazie, Milano, 2022.
- M. Walzer, Guerre giuste e ingiuste. Un discorso morale con esemplificazioni storiche, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009

Testi per i non frequentanti
Due testi (o coppie di testi) a scelta tra i precedenti.
Educational objectives
The lectures aims at the acquisition of a greater awareness of the main conceptual knots and of the most relevant interpretative frameworks relating to the theory of war and just violence, as well as their evolution and historical depth.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching methods
Lectures will be face-to-face and in interactive dialogue with the students. Teaching materials will be made available consisting of powerpoint presentations, excerpts from books and articles, thematic maps and videos that will be downloadable from the university website.
Other information

Learning verification modality
Oral exam
Extended program
The class (36 hours) consists of three different but coordinated sections, preceded by an introductory lesson (2 hours) aimed at clarifying the most relevant terms and concepts at stake. A first section (10 hours) will reconstruct the ancient, medieval and modern genealogy of the twin themes of just war and the right of resistance, focusing in particular on the sixteenth-century elaboration of the theologians of the so-called School of Salamanca and on the monarchomach theories forged during the religious wars. The other two sections will follow its contemporary developments. The second one (12 hours) starts from the theoretical revival of the conceptual toolkit of just war by the American philosopher Michael Walzer (1977), and then goes on to analyze the turn-of-the-century changes in legal and institutional rhetoric aimed at justifying military interventions on a global scale. The third section (12 hours) starts from Frantz Fanon’s reflection (1961) on the violence of anti-colonial movements as a necessary component of the resistance against colonial oppression, and then examines the responses that liberation theologies, (post-)Marxists traditions (Virno, Hardt and Negri, Jameson), feminist theories (Butler, Cavarero, Muraro) and the ecological movement (Malm) have given to the problem of the legitimization of political violence.
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