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B024484 - WORKSHOP OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Course program
Academic Year 2018-19
Coorte 2017 - Second Cycle Degree in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Humanities (DILEF)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
-
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
13/09/2018 ⇒ 16/12/2018
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Giudizio Finale
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to analyse in depth some basic categories of Social Philosophy (such as individual, society, crowds, power, social bond, community, passions, world) starting from one of the masterpiece of the philosophical, political and sociological thought of the Twentieth Century: namely, Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power.
The course also aims to train students in the wrinting, presentation anddiscussion of philosophical texts.
The course also aims to train students in the wrinting, presentation anddiscussion of philosophical texts.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
E. Canetti, Massa e potere, Adelphi 2006 (the book’s sections concerning the examination will be incated during the course); L. Mazzone, Il principio possibilità. Masse, potere e metamorfosi nell’opera di Elias Canetti (Rosenber & Sellier 2017)
Also the following texts will be analysed during the course:
L. Alfieri, A. De Simone, Leggere Canetti. “Massa e potere” cinquant’anni dopo, Morlacchi 2011
E. Canetti, T. W. Adorno, Dialogo sulle masse, la paura e la morte, Bruno Mondadori 2006
E. Canetti, Potere e sopravvivenza, Adelphi 2004
–, La lingua salvata (Adelphi 2010)
–, Il frutto del fuoco (Adelphi 2007)0
–, Auto da fé (Adelphi 2010)
– L’altro processo. Le lettere di Kafka a Felice (in La coscienza delle parole, Adephi 2007, pp. 111-228)
– Hitler secondo Speer (in La coscienza delle parole, Adephi 2007, pp. 239-274)
G. Le Bon, Psicologia delle folle
S. Freud, Psicologia di massa e analisi dell’io
Not attending students are requested to choose and study also one of the following texts for the final examination:
M. Galli, Invito alla lettura di Canetti, Mursia, Milano 1986
Y. Ishaghpour, Elias Canetti. Metamorfosi e identità, Bollati Boringhieri 2005
L. Mazzone, Introduzione a Elias Canetti. La scrittura come professione, Orthotes 2017
Also the following texts will be analysed during the course:
L. Alfieri, A. De Simone, Leggere Canetti. “Massa e potere” cinquant’anni dopo, Morlacchi 2011
E. Canetti, T. W. Adorno, Dialogo sulle masse, la paura e la morte, Bruno Mondadori 2006
E. Canetti, Potere e sopravvivenza, Adelphi 2004
–, La lingua salvata (Adelphi 2010)
–, Il frutto del fuoco (Adelphi 2007)0
–, Auto da fé (Adelphi 2010)
– L’altro processo. Le lettere di Kafka a Felice (in La coscienza delle parole, Adephi 2007, pp. 111-228)
– Hitler secondo Speer (in La coscienza delle parole, Adephi 2007, pp. 239-274)
G. Le Bon, Psicologia delle folle
S. Freud, Psicologia di massa e analisi dell’io
Not attending students are requested to choose and study also one of the following texts for the final examination:
M. Galli, Invito alla lettura di Canetti, Mursia, Milano 1986
Y. Ishaghpour, Elias Canetti. Metamorfosi e identità, Bollati Boringhieri 2005
L. Mazzone, Introduzione a Elias Canetti. La scrittura come professione, Orthotes 2017
Learning Objectives
The course aims to propose a reflection on the complex relationships between crowds and power in history starting from Elias Canetti’s masterpiece Crowds and Power. Even though it has not been taken into serious consideration by social and political philosophy until now, Crowds and Power continues to provide very insightful ideas on some of the most worrying social, political and cultural phenomena of the global age.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the basic concepts of Social Philosophy
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons (at the beginning of the course), written papers and open discussions
Further information
Analysis of movies, leterary texts, journal and review articles
Type of Assessment
The course requires the writing, the presentation and the discussion of short texts – on some parts of the books requested by the program, but also of literary and filmic texts, chosen by the students - to be discussed with the teacher during the course. The purpose is to test writing skills and discussion of the students, in addition to the ability to identify autonomously other sources. Afterwards a short oral examination will follow, to verify and confirm the previous assessment: concerning bibliographic expertise, knowledge of the texts, expressive properties, capability of discussion and deepening the authors and texts examined.
Course program
Elias Canetti has been always considered an undisciplined author for his extraordinary capacity of combining different fields of knowledge. Crowds and Power is one of the most successful examples of his multidisciplinary attitude: Canetti meant it as the “work of his life” and conceived his life as an uninterrupted work against the mortifying temptations of power, alternatively defined in terms of “survinving”, “prohibition on transformation” and “paranoia”. Even though Crowds and Power had been written to “grab the Twentieth century by the throat” and to understand the deep reason underlying the alliance between Nazism and other authoritarian regimes with the crowds of his time, its neologisms, images and categories continue to offer insightful reflections on the current (either individual and collective) phenomena of command, voluntary servitude and disbedience against some of the most pervasive and sneaky forms of domination of our time.