Studying at the University of Verona

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Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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

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2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017

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Teaching code

4S02361

Coordinator

Olivia Guaraldo

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/01 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Semestrino IIA, Semestrino IIB

Learning outcomes

The course aims at introducing and discussing some of the major issues concerning political philosophy, especcially those related to the contemporary global challenges that interest this field of research

Program

What is happiness? Politics, freedom, public life in Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt

When we speak of happiness we usually intend private happiness. Similarly, when we vindicate our freedom we tend to conceive it individually. For Hannah Arendt, passionate reader of Tocqueville, happiness and freedom have largely to do with public and political life. Thecourse intends to analyze the main work by Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, and interrogate the displacing question posed by Arendt, namely that freedom coincides with the possibility to actively participate in politics and this experience opens to the possibility of a “public happiness”.

Examination Methods

Testi d’esame

• A. de Tocqueville, La democrazia in America, a cura di G. Candeloro, edizione BUR

• H. Arendt, Tra passato e futuro, Garzanti (qualsiasi ristampa)

• Dispense del corso:
1) H. Arendt, L’azione e la “ricerca della felicità” (da: Filosofia politica e pratica del pensiero. Arendt, Voegelin, Strauss, a cura di G. Duso, Franco Angeli, pp. 333-348);
2) O. Guaraldo, “Hannah Arendt. La politica come libertà”, in “Quaderni laici”, n. 7, 2012, pp. 97-116. disponibili sul blog: www.publichappiness.wordpress.com e sulla piattaforma e-learning di ateneo


Exam:
oral examination

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