Classic & Contemporary: Machiavelli and Weber. The Philosophy of Culture course aims to outline and thematically and critically analyze the relationship between culture, philosophy, politics and education through the analysis of the thought and work of Niccolò Machiavelli (first part) and Max Weber (second part) . The training objective is to provide students with the fundamental and critical concepts, methods and orientations essential for their cultural, philosophical and pedagogical training through constant reference to reading and dialogue between classic and contemporary.

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·         • The diffractions of the classic in the contemporary. Speeches on Machiavelli yesterday and today.

·  • Culture, philosophy, history and political education: through Machiavelli.

·  • Machiavelli: morphologies of the modern crisis between religion, ethics and politics.

·  • Machiavelli, conflict and political ontology: the institution of the social.

·  • Anthropology of passions, luck and virtues in Machiavelli.

·  Life, conflict and power. The prince, the greats and the people.

·  • Between Rome and Florence: Machiavelli and the "riots".

·  • Machiavelli and "distant" knowledge. Between culture, philosophy and politics.

·  • Machiavelli: knowledge, spaces and political subjects.

·  • From Machiavelli to Machiavelli. Tragic humanism, Machiavellian renaissance and Italian destiny.

·  • Machiavelli. The political "philosopher" and the art of conflict.

·  • Max Weber, the twentieth century and beyond.

·  • Max Weber. Culture, philosophy, politics, sociology.

·  • Max Weber and the transformations of philosophy.

·  • Weber & Marx: man, rationality, freedom. Reading by Karl Loewith.

·  • Knowledge, progress and sense of science in Max Weber.

·  • Max Weber and the conflict of modern reason in the age of disenchantment.

·  • Max Weber and the forms of power: domination, command, obedience.

·  • Weber's man. Ethics and politics.

·  • Read Weber today.

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·  Knowledge and understanding:

·  - knowledge of the fundamental themes of the Philosophy of culture exposed in class and deepened in the textbooks and understanding of its fundamental concepts in their cultural, philosophical and political repercussions (see Training objectives);

·  Knowledge of the philosophical forms and of the metamorphoses and cultural, historical and socio-political dynamics exposed in class and deepened in the textbooks and understanding of the processes that have configured them.

·  - understanding of the constituent elements of the relationship between culture, philosophy and politics between classical and contemporary in relation to the subject area and the program carried out.

·  Applied knowledge and understanding:

·  - ability to orientate oneself in the modern and contemporary cultural, philosophical, political and sociological debate and to understand the elements that today structurally consolidate the knowledge of the problems of the Philosophy of culture also in the training and educational field.

·  Making judgments:

·  - ability to take an autonomous position with respect to the main cultural, philosophical, historical-political and educational issues of the contemporary critical debate on the thought of Machiavelli and Weber.

·  Communication skills:

·  - ability to adequately communicate what has been learned in the forms of university-level study; ability to transmit and communicate the fundamental aspects and principles of the Philosophy of culture declined in its disciplinary relationship in basic educational work.      

·  Ability to learn

·  - based on the knowledge acquired through the course, the student must be able to independently build in-depth courses and understand which readings and experiences can help him in this regard.

With regards to the discipline, the student has to show the possession of:

• the mastery of basic knowledge;
• the understanding of the fundamentals of the discipline;
• the capacity of using skills and concepts according to the logic of the discipline.

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

During the course, to enrich the training offer, interdisciplinary integrative seminars will be held by the professor Antonio De Simone and by the experts of the subject dott. Luciano Massi and PhD.  Alessandra Peluso. A study meeting on the topic "Beyond disenchantment. Max Weber a century later: philosophy, politics, sociology", the modalities and possibilities of realization of which will be scheduled and communicated, is also planned during the course.

Teaching

Frontal lessons, tutorials and scientific-educational seminars integrating in-depth study.

Attendance

Class attendance is not mandatory but strongly recommended.

Course books

    

-  ANTONIO DE SIMONE, Post res perditas. Discorsi su Machiavelli. Lezioni Urbinati, Morlacchi, Perugia 2019.

-  ANTONIO DE SIMONE, L'ultimo classico. Max Weber. Filosofo, politico, sociologo, Mimesis, Milano 2020 (in particular chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9).

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

Non-Attending Students have to conform to the indications provided by the program and the course books of the vademecum.

Attendance

The assessment of the logic and the disciplinary methodologies of learning

Course books

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-  ANTONIO DE SIMONE, Post res perditas. Discorsi su Machiavelli. Lezioni Urbinati, Morlacchi, Perugia 2019.

-  ANTONIO DE SIMONE, L'ultimo classico. Max Weber. Filosofo, politico, sociologo, Mimesis, Milano 2020 (in particular chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9).

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.