20711685 - Philosophy of religions

The course of Philosophy of Religions (MA level) is part of the program in Philosophical Studies and is included among the characterising training activities. Upon completion of the course students are expected to acquire the following skills: 1) advanced critical thinking and its relation to wider issues; 2) advanced language and argumentation skills required to the issues discussed in the course; 3) advanced capacity to understand and analyse philosophical sources and the relevant critical debate.
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Programme

Anisemitism: the mytological machine between old and new antijudaism

Core Documentation

FurioJesi, Secret Germany, Seagull
P. A. Taguieff "Antisemitism", Tim, 2017
P. A Taguieff , Rising From the Muck: The New Anti-Semitism in Europe, Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
J. Paul Sartre, "Antisemitism", any edition
Jean Amery, The new antisemitism
Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, Penguin 1991

Reference Bibliography

J. Herf, Three Faces of Antisemitism. Right, Left and Islamist, Routledge, Oxon-New York, 2024 Robert S. C. Gordon, "Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues. From Testimony to Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2001 Massimo Giuliani, "Centaur in Auschwitz: Reflections on Primo Levi's Thinking",Lexinton Books, 2003 Jean Améry, At the minds limit, 1966

Type of delivery of the course

Classes. Discussion.

Attendance

Optional

Type of evaluation

Oral examination.