STORIA DELLE DOTTRINE POLITICHE

12 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

CATALDO NICOSIA

Learning Objectives

STORIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICO MODERNO
The module aims to provide tools of knowledge of the main doctrinal sources of European political thought from the Renaissance to modern times. Building on the foundations of modern political science in the Prince of Machiavelli will cover the building blocks and theorists of the modern state, its evolution until the crisis of the absolute monarchies. The temporal scope of the discussion, it Imposed choice for each period of great works, masterpieces, judged "classics".
STORIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICO CONTEMPORANEO
They are analyzed the main theoretical sources of liberal parliamentarianism, its evolution through the traumatic phases of American and French revolutions. Subsequently we will be examined aspects related to the evolution towards democracy and liberalism answers matrix socialist. The crisis of the liberal model of the twentieth century will be related to the rise of totalitarian challenge.
STORIA DEL PENSIERO COSTITUZIONALE E DELLA DEMOCRAZIA
By the history constitutionalist we want to retrace the milestones of emergence and the affirmation in Europe of the modern state and its political goals: restriction to the public authorities and protection of individual rights. Next to this "negative" role of constitutionalism, it is stated in contemporary an attitude that can be defined as participation in the sense that it contributes to the formation of a political power against whom he claims, to the same extent as before, limits and guarantees.
DEMOCRAZIA E LIBERTÀ NEL PENSIERO POLITICO EUROPEO
In the last module we will deepen the relationship between democracy and freedom, and the evolution and transformation of their meaning over time, to better understand the extent to which democracy guarantees freedom of the individual and the community in contemporary political thought. Specifically, we will investigate a new model of management of power: the associationism inspired by the principles of democracy and political representation.

Detailed Course Content

STORIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICO MODERNO
The Prince of N. Machiavelli. Les six livres de la Republique of J. Bodin. The Leviahtan of T.Hobbes. Two treatises of government , of J. Locke.
STORIA DEL PENSIERO POLITICO CONTEMPORANEO
L’Esprit des lois, C.de Montesquieu. Du Contract social, J.J.Rousseau. La Democratie en Amerique, A.de Tocqueville,The Manifest of communist Party, K.Marx e F.Engels. Origins of totalitarism, A. Arendt.
STORIA DEL PENSIERO COSTITUZIONALE E DELLA DEMOCRAZIA
In the opening chapters of the book of M. Fioravanti will address the origins of constitutionalism , its claim to set limits to centralizing power and absolute . In this logic defensive and ' negative ' it is accompanied in the central part of the volume , scope all positive constitutionalism to contribute to the formation and construction of constitutional models against which claims the same limitations and the same guarantees of origin . These models are : the American federal constitution, and the radical Jacobin other in the second half of the ' 700 and the democratic constitutions of the ' 900 . Finally , the volume of C. Laudani they reconstruct the peculiarities of the constitutional model in Sicily from the Middle Ages up to the modern age .
DEMOCRAZIA E LIBERTÀ NEL PENSIERO POLITICO EUROPEO
The program aims to investigate the relationship between freedom and equality in mass society . Through the volume of Regina Pozzi we will try to examine the virtues and defects , normality and pathology , contradictions , in short , democracy . The second text in program verification, through research conducted over the years , as consolidation in the territory of a dense network of mutual aid societies became in pivot around which began to build a modern democratic society based on the principle of representation

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