The course is aimed to the basic comprehension of political symbolics through the study of the character of the homo sacer. The corse wants to introduce students to the political and philosophical comprehension of the lager (concentration camp), as opposite to the city, through the reading an interpretation of suggested books.

Main topics of the course are the following:

• Power and bare life
• Mythic violence and divine violence in Walter Benjamin
• Ideology and terror in Hannah Arendt
• The concentration camp as the paradygm of the modernity
• The concentration camp and the order of terror
• The concentration camp and the issue of the witness

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The learning achievements and the competences to be acquired are in line with those required by a bachelor in Political Sciences of International Relations. in particular, they are related to the acquisition of knowledge and comprehension of papers that allow to elaborate original ideas into a wider and multidisciplinary research environment. The course help the students to acquire competences and skills in order to deal with new and unconventional topics and to manage complexity. Finally to communicate the acquired competences in a clear and complete way.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises) and specific communications from the lecturer can be found, together with other supporting activities, inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

frontal lessons and seminars

Attendance

none

Course books

G. Agamben, Homo sacer, Stanford University Press 1998.

G. Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz, Zone Book, 2002.

P. Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, A Sumnit Books 1988.

Assessment

oral exam

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

On appointement (during office hours), The Professor is avaiable to give detailed information about the course and the books to the Non-attending Students. Further information will be uploaded on the online platform.

Attendance

none

Course books

G. Agamben, Homo sacer, Stanford University Press 1998.

G. Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz, Zone Book, 2002.

P. Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, A Sumnit Books 1988.

Assessment

oral exam

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

The program includes two seminars. The dates will be communicated during the course and uploaded on the online platform.

L'Unione Europea al lavoro by Salvatore Scalzo

Imagine, Conversation, Politics by Walter Bernardini.

There will be two more seminars about the century of genocide held by a Multidciplinary Research Group of the Political and Social Sciences School. Dates will be communicated during the lessons.

The student can request to sit the final exam in English with an alternative bibliography.