The Philosophy of Culture advanced course, with specialized methodologies aimed at satisfying the curricular training of students, aims to outline and analytically and critically thematize the relationship between culture, philosophy, politics and education through the analysis of thought and the work of some of the leading modern and contemporary philosophers. The educational 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, Modern and Contemporary. In particular, in its first part, the relationship between Niccolò Machiavelli's thought and work and the fundamental problems of modern political philosophy will be thematized. In the second part, some elements of conceptual history concerning the philosophical-political problem of sovereignty and power will be dealt with thematically, with particular reference to the relationship between Hobbes and Canetti. In the third part, the subject of thematic and critical discussion will be the reconstruction of Max Weber's political philosophy, with particular reference to his diagnosis of the tragic disenchantment of the modern reinterpreted and interpreted by Jürgen Habermas. Against the background of the issues addressed in the three previous parts, in the fourth part some itineraries of the philosophical twentieth century will be discussed.

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 virtue in Machiavelli.

• Life, conflict and power. The prince, the great and the people.

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

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

• Machiavelli: knowledge, spaces and political subjects.

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

• The lexicon of power between Modern and Contemporary.

• The philosophical-political problem of sovereignty between Hobbes and Canetti.

• 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.

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

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

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

• Weber's man. Ethics and politics.

• Read Weber today.

• Philosophical itineraries of the twentieth century between culture, history and politics.

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In relation to the discipline the student will have to show:

-  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, socio-political and pedagogical dynamics exposed in class and deepened in the textbooks and understanding of the processes that have configured them.

-  - understanding of the constitutive elements of the relationship between culture, philosophy, politics and training processes between classic 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 pedagogical 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 philosophical thought from Machiavelli to Canetti.

-  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.

-  In relation to the discipline, therefore, the student must show in a mature way, possession:

-  • mastery of basic knowledge;

-  • understanding of the fundamental concepts of the discipline;

-  • the ability to use knowledge and concepts to reason 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, by the the professor Luigi Alfieri and by prof. Luciano Massi and PhD. Alessandra Peluso are also scheduled during the course. Possibility of realization will be scheduled and communicated.

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 2020².

-  LUIGI ALFIERI, L’ombra della sovranità. Da Hobbes a Canetti e ritorno, Treccani, Roma 2021.

-  AA.VV., La filosofia politica di Max Weber, a cura G.M. Chiodi, R. Gatti, V. Sorrentino, Franco Angeli, Milano 2022.

- FRANCESCO FISTETTI, Il Novecento nello specchio delle filosofie. Linguaggi, immagini del mondo, paradigmi, Utet-Università, Milano 2021 (capp. III, VIII, IX, X). 

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

-  ANTONIO DE SIMONE, Post res perditas. Discorsi su Machiavelli. Lezioni Urbinati, Morlacchi, Perugia 2020².

-  LUIGI ALFIERI, L’ombra della sovranità. Da Hobbes a Canetti e ritorno, Treccani, Roma 2021.

-  AA.VV., La filosofia politica di Max Weber, a cura G.M. Chiodi, R. Gatti, V. Sorrentino, Franco Angeli, Milano 2022.

- FRANCESCO FISTETTI, Il Novecento nello specchio delle filosofie. Linguaggi, immagini del mondo, paradigmi, Utet-Università, Milano 2021 (capp. III, VIII, IX, X).