Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Medieval History, History of Christianity and Churches
Early Modern History I - LM (Historical Anthropology)
Contemporary History I - LM
To be chosen between
History of Science and Technology - LM
To be chosen between
History of Political Institutions II
History of Political Thought
To be chosen between
To be chosen between
Contemporary Italian Literature II
History of Contemporary Art II - LM
History of Medieval Art I
History of Modern Art II
Italian Philology II (Medieval and Humanistic Philology)
Medieval Latin Literature II
Digital tools for historical research
Further linguistic competence (Historiografical concepts in English, French, German and Spanish-speaking context)
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Medieval History, History of Christianity and Churches
Early Modern History I - LM (Historical Anthropology)
Contemporary History I - LM
To be chosen between
History of Science and Technology - LM
To be chosen between
History of Political Institutions II
History of Political Thought
To be chosen between
To be chosen between
Contemporary Italian Literature II
History of Contemporary Art II - LM
History of Medieval Art I
History of Modern Art II
Italian Philology II (Medieval and Humanistic Philology)
Medieval Latin Literature II
Digital tools for historical research
Further linguistic competence (Historiografical concepts in English, French, German and Spanish-speaking context)
| Modules | Credits | TAF | SSD |
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
History of Philosophy and Scientific Thought (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S006109
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Period
I semestre - sede Trento dal Sep 18, 2017 al Dec 22, 2017.
Learning outcomes
Analysis of a philosophical subject, reconstruction of its history and theoretical definition.
Program
Prerequisites: General knowledge in History of Philosophy
Contents:
Thinking anger between philosophy, science and literature
Anger, in its different meanings, plays an important role in contemporary life. The course aims to analyze its origin and developments in order to understand its expressions in our culture. The most important historical interpretations of anger will be presented, read and discussed. Some iconographic representations of it will also be taken into account. The main question will be the following: is anger a reactive form of energy which contributes to strengthen human freedom, or is it its destructive deformation? Lessons in the first part of the course, contributes by the students in the second one.
Teaching Methods: Reading, interpreting, discussing texts on the subject.
Texts:
Platone, La Repubblica, a cura di M. Vegetti, Bur, Milano, 2006, libro IV, 435a-445e (pp.589-629)
Aristotele, Retorica, in Id. Opere, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1983, Libro II, 1377b-1380b 34, pp. 67-76. (materiale disponibile sul sito moodle della didattica online)
Seneca, L'ira, BUR, Milano, 2010 (parte I e II)
R. Descartes, Le passioni dell'anima, Bompiani, Milano, 2003, (pp.113-199; 413-421)
C. Le Brun, Le figure delle passioni, Conferenze sull'espressione e la fisionomia, Cortina, Milano, 1992
T. Hobbes, Elementi della legge naturale e politica, La nuova Italia, Firenze, 1989, pp. 58-76 (materiale online)
J.-J. Rousseau, Scritti politici, vol.I, Discorso sull'origine dell'ineguaglianza, Laterza, Bari, pp. 173-185 (materiale online)
C. Darwin, L'espressione delle emozioni, Bollati Boringhieri,Torino, 1982, pp. IX-XXXV, pp. 117-137, 139-157, 311-324. (materiale online)
Mandatory readings:
M. Vegetti, Passioni antiche. L'io collerico, in S. Vegetti Finzi, Storia delle passioni, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1995, pp. 39-73 (online)
M. Vegetti, Il caso dell' "Iliade": dialettica della morale pre-politica, in Id., L'etica degli antichi, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1989, pp. 13-35 (online)
P. Giacomoni, Ardore. Quattro prospettive sull'ira da Achille agli Indignados, Carocci, Roma, 2014
Supporting texts: (choose one)
P. Campeggiani, Le ragioni dell'ira. Potere e riconoscimento nella Grecia antica, Carocci, Roma, 2013.
M. Nussbaum, Anger and Forgiveness, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016, pp. 1-90.
P. Sloterdijk, Ira e tempo, Meltemi, Roma, 2007.
F. Fukuyama, La fine della storia e l'ultimo uomo, Rizzoli, Milano, 2011.
B. Carnevali, Romanticismo e riconoscimento, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2004.
P. Mishra, Age of Anger. A History of the Present, Allen Lane, Penguin Books, London, 2017.
E. Zenger, Un Dio di vendetta?, Ancora, Trento, 2005.
B. Rosenwein, Anger's Past: the social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages, 1998.
More bibliographical information during the course.
Examination Methods
1.Oral exam
2.Oral and written papers
