The course aims to provide students with an overview of the history of public opinion and mass culture, accompanied by a specific reflection on the transformations of contemporary society.
The aim of the course is for students to acquire knowledge and understand the role of public opinion and mass culture in the history of the twentieth century.
At the end of the course, students will have acquired the knowledge of the main themes of the historiographical debate on the history of public opinion and mass culture.
The aim of the course is for students to acquire knowledge and understand the role of public opinion and mass culture in the history of the twentieth century.
At the end of the course, students will have acquired the knowledge of the main themes of the historiographical debate on the history of public opinion and mass culture.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
1) Thomas Hobbes, De cive (Editori Riuniti)
2) Baruch Spinoza, Trattato teologico-politico (Bompiani, Einaudi o Bibliopolis)
3) Thomas Hobbes, Leviatano, (Laterza o Bompiani)
4) Baruch Spinoza, Etica (Editori Riuniti o Bompiani).
Mutuazione: 20710531 STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA MODERNA in Scienze filosofiche LM-78 TOTO FRANCESCO
Programme
During the course, we will read parts of Hobbes' "De Cive" and "Leviathan," and parts of Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" and "Ethics." The reading will focus on the respective theories of passions and virtues, in particular on the "vital" root of the passions, the relationship of continuity or discontinuity between the passions most clearly related to self-preservation and those related to the pursuit of recognition, the ability of these passions to act as a vector not only of disorder and conflict, but also of self-control and cooperation, and the conflict and possible synergy of the imaginative and rational dimensions. Through this reading, an attempt will be made to test the opposition between the two thinkers widely disseminated in the specialist literature and no less widely received in historiography, as welle as the evolution of both systems, and the influence of one on the other.Core Documentation
Selected passages from the following works will be commented on:1) Thomas Hobbes, De cive (Editori Riuniti)
2) Baruch Spinoza, Trattato teologico-politico (Bompiani, Einaudi o Bibliopolis)
3) Thomas Hobbes, Leviatano, (Laterza o Bompiani)
4) Baruch Spinoza, Etica (Editori Riuniti o Bompiani).
Type of delivery of the course
The course will include face-to-face, in-class lectures. Streaming will be provided, via teamsType of evaluation
The exam will be oral. The student will be asked to prepare a 15-minute speech about an aspect of the program of his/her choice. From here, the teacher will continue to verify a more general knowledge of the texts in the program and the achievement of the educational objectives. teacher profile teaching materials
1) Thomas Hobbes, De cive (Editori Riuniti)
2) Baruch Spinoza, Trattato teologico-politico (Bompiani, Einaudi o Bibliopolis)
3) Thomas Hobbes, Leviatano, (Laterza o Bompiani)
4) Baruch Spinoza, Etica (Editori Riuniti o Bompiani).
Mutuazione: 20710531 STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA MODERNA in Scienze filosofiche LM-78 TOTO FRANCESCO
Programme
During the course, we will read parts of Hobbes' "De Cive" and "Leviathan," and parts of Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" and "Ethics." The reading will focus on the respective theories of passions and virtues, in particular on the "vital" root of the passions, the relationship of continuity or discontinuity between the passions most clearly related to self-preservation and those related to the pursuit of recognition, the ability of these passions to act as a vector not only of disorder and conflict, but also of self-control and cooperation, and the conflict and possible synergy of the imaginative and rational dimensions. Through this reading, an attempt will be made to test the opposition between the two thinkers widely disseminated in the specialist literature and no less widely received in historiography, as welle as the evolution of both systems, and the influence of one on the other.Core Documentation
Selected passages from the following works will be commented on:1) Thomas Hobbes, De cive (Editori Riuniti)
2) Baruch Spinoza, Trattato teologico-politico (Bompiani, Einaudi o Bibliopolis)
3) Thomas Hobbes, Leviatano, (Laterza o Bompiani)
4) Baruch Spinoza, Etica (Editori Riuniti o Bompiani).
Type of delivery of the course
The course will include face-to-face, in-class lectures. Streaming will be provided, via teamsType of evaluation
The exam will be oral. The student will be asked to prepare a 15-minute speech about an aspect of the program of his/her choice. From here, the teacher will continue to verify a more general knowledge of the texts in the program and the achievement of the educational objectives.