Teaching code

4S011619

Credits

6

Coordinator

Davide Bondì

Language

Italian

Also offered in courses:

• Philosophy and sexual Difference of the course Master's degree in Philosophy
• Philosophy and sexual Difference - Esercitazione of the course Master's degree in Philosophy
• Philosophy and sexual Difference - Lezione of the course Master's degree in Philosophy

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/06 - HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Courses Single

Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Prerequisites and basic notions

Fundamental notions of modern and contemporary philosophy acquired with the Bachelor's degree.

Program

Antonio Gramsci's "Philosophy of Praxis". The course intends to offer a reconstruction of the main theoretical cores of Antonio Gramsci's philosophy of practice with regard to its genesis and structure. PART I (LESSONS) a) in order to grasp the genesis of the philosophy of praxis, the process of re-elaboration of Marx's philosophy will be retraced through the distancing from the traditional conception of historical materialism and the criticisms of the approaches of Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile. Gramsci's intellectual development will also be placed in the context of the great historical and political turning points of the first half of the twentieth century, in particular the Bolshevik Revolution, the foundation of the Italian Communist Party, the rise of fascism and the resistance against its affirmation. b): the clarification of the theoretical structure of the philosophy of practice will be accompanied by the elucidation of the main notions focused on in the Prison Notebooks and in the Letters from Prison: "hegemony", "civil society", "passive revolution", "historic block" , “common sense and common sense”, “subordination”, “democracy”. PART II (EXERCISES) Seminar discussions will be organized (see teaching methods) aimed at deepening the aforementioned notions through the reconstruction of textual references (not easy to identify in the laboratory of the Notebooks) and to follow their developments in the contemporary philosophical debate (Edwad W. Said , Dipesh Chakrabarty, Alain Badiou, Axel Honneth). It is a question of re-reading the maximum expression of Western theoretical Marxism, freeing it from later political appropriations and showing its heuristic and critical efficacy with respect to contemporary processes, as shown by the assimilation of that categorical apparatus in postcolonial studies, in Subaltern studies, in the reflection on democracy from below and in research on ideology.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course will be held in accordance with the University provisions on COVID-19. The course will be divided into two parts: 24 hours of lectures (=4 CFU) and 24 hours of exercises (=2 CFU). Only the frontal lessons will be recorded and made available online. In the first part of the course (a, b), the teacher will provide the historical, theoretical and historiographical coordinates relating to the chosen theme according to a traditional method of presentation, always open to discussion and the active participation of the students. In the second part of the course, the teaching method will be declined in a seminar sense with discussions initially guided by the teacher, reports by the students and/or group work. The ways of interaction and collaboration between the teacher and the students, but above all between the students themselves, will in any case be subject to experimentation and possible redefinition during the lessons, in the light of the number of attending students, their possible proposals and specific training needs. The active and effective contribution of the students will be a crucial factor in the co-construction of the common path. Non-attending students must contact the teacher to agree on alternative and substitute teaching/learning methods.

Learning assessment procedures

Oral exam for the first part of the course + exercises (or substitute activity) for the second part of the course. The oral exam will be the same for both attending and non-attending students, and will focus on: 1) the presentation and commentary of a text taken from the Letters from prison or from the prison notebooks, pertaining to the notions and themes taken into consideration in the lessons (a,b). The texts in question will be made available in an anthology published by the teacher on the moodle platform. 2) On a book chosen from among the following: Norberto Bobbio, Ideological profile of the twentieth century, Garzanti, Milan 1995; Michele Ciliberto, The notebook factory. Studies on Gramsci, Edizioni della Normale, Pisa 2020; Angelo d'Orsi, Gramsci. A new biography, Feltrinelli, Milan 2018; Marcello Mustè, Marxism and philosophy of praxis. From Labriola to Gramsci, Viella, Rome 2018. The exercises carried out in class will be sufficient to establish the corresponding grade for the attending students. The verification methods for non-attending students will be clarified with the teacher during the interview aimed at also agreeing on alternative and substitute teaching/learning methods.

Evaluation criteria

The evaluation criteria will be the following: 1) knowledge of the key concepts and understanding of the relative problems; 2) ability to present clearly; 3) ability to analyze texts using appropriate vocabulary; 4) autonomy of thought; 5) active participation and evidence of effective improvement (exercises).

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade will be expressed out of thirty and will be the result of the weighted average of the assessments obtained in the two parts of the course.

Exam language

Italiano/Italian. Studenti Erasmus incoming possono chiedere di sostenere l’esame in inglese o in tedesco. Erasmus incoming students can ask to do the exam in English or in German.