The Course provides a map – all along with a genealogical approach to the considered conceptual tools – of the main debates in contemporary Political philosophy concerning single issues, that will be identified every year.
The Course is intended to the acquisition of:
an in-depth knowledge of authors and texts in contemporary Political philosophy;
critical and interpretative conceptual tools both in reading and in debating;
skills in the written exposition of the considered issues.
International students can ask for writing the paper in their native language or in English.
The Course is intended to the acquisition of:
an in-depth knowledge of authors and texts in contemporary Political philosophy;
critical and interpretative conceptual tools both in reading and in debating;
skills in the written exposition of the considered issues.
International students can ask for writing the paper in their native language or in English.
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Bodypolitics.
From the environmental crisis to the management of migratory flows up to security measures, life and death reappear as crucial problems of thought and political intervention. The modern partition between nature and society, between homo and civis has been replaced by the new intersections identified through the concept of biopolitics and the more recent terms of thanatopolitics and necropolitics. Reference authors will be discussed in order to identify the different conceptions of the body at work in the respective analyses - between passivity and activity, singularity and generalization, agency and representation.
Due testi a scelta tra i seguenti:
- A. Cavarero, Corpo in figure. Filosofia e politica della corporeità, Feltrinelli, Milano 2005
- M. Foucault, Nascita della biopolitica. Corso al Collège de France (1978-1979), Feltrinelli, Milano 2005
- G. Deleuze, Cosa può un corpo. Lezioni su Spinoza, Ombre Corte, Verona 2010; G. Deleuze, Istinti e istituzioni, Mimesis, Milano 2014
- Donna J. Haraway, Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo, Feltrinelli, Milano 2018
- J. Butler, Corpi che contano. Sui limiti discorsivi del “sesso”, Feltrinelli, Milano 1996
- R. Braidotti, Madri mostri e macchine, manifestolibri, Roma 2005
- R. Esposito, Bios. Biopolitica e filosofia, Einaudi, Torino 2004
- A. Mbembe, Necropolitica, Ombre Corte, Verona 2016
Programme
Bodypolitics.
From the environmental crisis to the management of migratory flows up to security measures, life and death reappear as crucial problems of thought and political intervention. The modern partition between nature and society, between homo and civis has been replaced by the new intersections identified through the concept of biopolitics and the more recent terms of thanatopolitics and necropolitics. Reference authors will be discussed in order to identify the different conceptions of the body at work in the respective analyses - between passivity and activity, singularity and generalization, agency and representation.
Core Documentation
Two essays from the following list:Due testi a scelta tra i seguenti:
- A. Cavarero, Corpo in figure. Filosofia e politica della corporeità, Feltrinelli, Milano 2005
- M. Foucault, Nascita della biopolitica. Corso al Collège de France (1978-1979), Feltrinelli, Milano 2005
- G. Deleuze, Cosa può un corpo. Lezioni su Spinoza, Ombre Corte, Verona 2010; G. Deleuze, Istinti e istituzioni, Mimesis, Milano 2014
- Donna J. Haraway, Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo, Feltrinelli, Milano 2018
- J. Butler, Corpi che contano. Sui limiti discorsivi del “sesso”, Feltrinelli, Milano 1996
- R. Braidotti, Madri mostri e macchine, manifestolibri, Roma 2005
- R. Esposito, Bios. Biopolitica e filosofia, Einaudi, Torino 2004
- A. Mbembe, Necropolitica, Ombre Corte, Verona 2016
Type of delivery of the course
Spechees and debate. Some specialists will be invitedAttendance
Participation in debate is recommended.Type of evaluation
A paper (30.000 digits min.) will have to be sent 10 days before the oral exam to federica.giardini@uniroma3.it and a printed copy will have to be delivered in the mailbox at the Department. International students can ask for writing the paper in their native language or in English.