HISTORY OF ITALIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

The course is consistent with the goals of the degree program because it introduces students to the fundamental problems and concepts in the history of Italian political thought, with particular focus on the main theoretical and hermeneutic traditions.

Upon completion of the course, the students will have developed the ability to: understand the meaning of the texts and topics discussed in class; recognize their implications for the contemporary scientific and civil debate; communicate in a more appropriate and informed way.

It is necessary to have a good general education, a basic background acquired in upper secondary school, and a knowledge of the main moments and protagonists of Italian political and cultural history.

Course title: Antonio Gramsci and the history of Italian intellectuals
The course has a dual and complementary purpose: to understand Antonio Gramsci's thought through the dialogue he establishes in his Prison Notebooks with some classics of Italian political thought and, conversely, to study the latter through the filter of Gramsci's reading, a reading that will be critically analysed and discussed in class.

Textbooks:
Carlo Galli (a cura di), Manuale di storia del pensiero politico, il Mulino, Bologna 2011 (parti selezionate);
Sergio Luzzatto e Gabriele Pedullà (a cura di), Atlante della letteratura italiana, 3 voll., Einaudi, Torino 2010-2012 (parti selezionate);
Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del carcere, ed. critica dell'Istituto Gramsci a cura di V. Gerratana, Einaudi, Torino 1975 (parti selezionate).


THE SYLLABUS IS PROVISIONAL AND THE LIST OF EXAMINATION TEXTS MAY UNDERGO SOME CHANGES DURING THE SUMMER OF 2024.

For any further information on the course topics, please refer to:
Gianni Francioni, Struttura e descrizione dei «Quaderni del carcere», in «International Gramsci Journal», vol. 3, 2019, n. 2, pp. 44-64;
Giuseppe Cospito, Introduzione a Gramsci, il Nuovo Melangolo, Genova 2015;
Giuseppe Vacca, Modernità alternative. Il Novecento di Antonio Gramsci, Einaudi, Torino 2017;
Marcello Mustè, Marxismo e filosofia della praxis. Da Labriola a Gramsci, Viella, Roma 2018.

For any further information on the history of Italian political thought, please refer to:
Roberto Esposito, Pensiero vivente. Origini e attualità della filosofia italiana, Einaudi, Torino 2010;
Ettore A. Albertoni, Storia delle dottrine politiche in Italia, Arnoldo Mondadori, Milano 1985;
Luigi Salvatorelli, Il pensiero politico italiano dal 1700 al 1870, Einaudi, Torino 1943 (terza ed.);
Angelo d’Orsi, L'Italia delle idee. Il pensiero politico in un secolo e mezzo di storia, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2011;
Norberto Bobbio, Profilo ideologico del Novecento italiano, Einaudi, Torino 1986;
Giuseppe Bedeschi, La fabbrica delle ideologie: il pensiero politico nell'Italia del Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2002;
Gianfranco Pasquino, Libertà inutile. Profilo ideologico dell'Italia repubblicana, UTET, Torino 2021.

The final exam will be oral and will be related to the texts and to contents the discussed throughout the course and to the topics addressed within the textbooks.

The teaching style will be traditional. Students’ participation will be encouraged.

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