FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: HISTORY, POLICIES, PROTECTION
DIRITTI FONDAMENTALI: STORIA, TEORIA E POLITICHE
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| 2023/2024 | 6 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Domenico Scalzo | Office hours for students will be indicated at beginning of the corse |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
French
German
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course has the following educational objectives: orient yourself in a theoretical research environment and be familiar with emerging concepts. That means understanding the negative phenomena of politcs and law as violence in politics, violence against law, terror and genocide; identify the connection between politics and denial, between law and violence, develop a first theoretical attempt in the direction of an idea of politics and another use of law that keep behind the effectuality of the questioned matter, i.e. the human rights crisis.
The course aims to provide the student with a critical knowledge of the idea of fundamental rights, as well as the essential instruments in order to embrace the theoretical concepts of main phenomena concerning human rights in contemporary society. The privileged perspective is the genocidal violence.
Program
The course takes place through a series of frontal lessons.
The topic is genocide in the history.
Below some keywords that will be discussed during lessons:
- Biopolitics of violence, tanatopolitics of violence
- Ghenos, lineage, identity, community, nation
- Camp and bare life
- Ethics of witness
- The triviality of evil and Responsibility under tyranny
Bridging Courses
nothing
Teaching Material
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
Supporting Activities
Lessons will be frontal and remote at the same time
General seminars on "Political Europe" and "Art and Politics" are planned.
Dates and modalities will be communicated during lectures.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
It will be considered as attending students the ones who will attend the 75/100 of the classes.
Attending students will be asked to be active part during lessons.
They will be given the opportunity to consider part of the program as optional, thanks to the work done during classes, with a choice between the exam texts, as shown below.
The choice has to be done at the end of the lessons.
A text of your choice between the following two. It is recommended to make the choice at the end of the course
- Attendance
It will be considered as attending students the ones who will attend the 75/100 of the classes.
Attending students will be asked to be active part during lessons.
- Course books
Texts of exam:
Giorgio Agamben, Homo sacer, Einaudi, Torino, 1995.
Hannah Arendt, Noi rifugiati, a cura di Donatella Di Cesare, Einaudi, Torino 2022.
R. Calvo, L'ordinamento criminale della deportazione, Laterza, Bari 2023
Lectures:
Giorgio Agamben, Quel che resta di Auschwitz, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1998.
Giorgio Agamben, Stato d'eccezione, Boringhieri, Torino 2002.
Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo, edizione a cura di A. Cavaglion, Einaudi, Torino 2012.
Primo Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, Torino 2014.
- Assessment
General seminars on "Political Europe" and "Art and Politics" are planned.
Dates and modalities will be communicated during lectures.
- 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.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
A weekly update of the topics covered in class on the Moodle platform will be provided for the students attending the course.
- Attendance
The programm is whole. There is not the choise between the two books us for the attending students
- Course books
Texts of exam:
Giorgio Agamben, Homo sacer, Einaudi, Torino 1995.
Hannah Arendt, Noi rifugiati, a cura di Donatella Di Cesare, Einaudi, Torino 2022.
Roberto Calvo, L'ordinamento criminale della deportazione, Laterza, Bari 2023.
Lectures:
Giorgio Agamben, Quel che resta di Auschwitz, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1998.
Giorgio Agamben, Stato d'eccezione, Boringhieri, Torino 2002.
Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo, edizione a cura di A. Cavaglion, Einaudi, Torino 2012.
Primo Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, Einaudi, Torino 2014.
- Assessment
General seminars on "Political Europe" and "Art and Politics" are planned.
Dates and modalities will be communicated during lectures.
- 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.
Notes
Two seminars on the politics in Europe and on Arts and politics
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