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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.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Further language skills B2 level
3
F
-
Final examination
18
E
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ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
1 module among the following
activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Further language skills B2 level
3
F
-
Final examination
18
E
-

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Teaching code

4S001232

Coordinator

Lorenzo Bernini

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

SPS/02 - HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

Period

CuCi IB dal Nov 9, 2020 al Jan 9, 2021.

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing examples of the contribution that History of political doctrines can give to the critical comprehension of political problems of current affairs. At the end of the course, students will have to prove that they: - accurately know the subjects of the program, - are able to expose them in a consequential and concise way, - have acquired independent judgement.

Program

Course title:
On the colour line: Du Bois, Fanon, Davis, (Montanelli) and us

Course content (for both attending and non-attending students):
1. Firstly, by focusing on classical political philosophers of modernity (Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx) the course will investigate the main political doctrines that shaped politics in modern State (absolutism, liberalism, democracy, socialism).

2. Secondly - through William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Frantz Fanon and Angela Davis - the course will analyse how the point of view of racialized subjects allows a radical critique of modern political thought, by the intersection of race, class and gender.

The debate on Indro Montanelli's monument in Milan will be taken into exam as an example of the removal of the colonial past in Italian public opinion. And the effect of this removal on the perception of immigration in Italy will be questioned.

Methods:
Lectures based on reading and interpretation of the texts and discussions.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, classes might be held online.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Angela Davis Donne, razza e classe Alegre 2018 Soltanto i capitoli: II. Il movimento abolizionista e l'origine dei diritti delle donne, pp. 61-78; V. Il significato dell'emancipazione secondo le donne nere, pp. 123-136; VI. Educazione e liberazione: le prospettive delle donne nere, pp. 137-150; XI. Stupro, razzismo e il mito dello stupratore Nero, pp. 221-254; XII. Razzismo, controllo delle nascite e diritti riproduttivi, pp. 255-278. Si raccomanda, soprattutto alle/agli studenti non frequentanti, la lettura della Prefazione di Cinzia Arruzza, pp. 9-20.
Gaia Giuliani Il colore della nazione Le Monnier 2015 Soltanto i saggi: Silvana Patriarca, 'Gli italiani non sono razzisti': costruzioni dell'italianità tra gli anni cinquanta e il sessantotto', pp. 32-45; Vincenza Perilli, Relazioni pericolose: Asimmetrie dell'interrelazione tra 'razza' e genere e sessualità interraziale, pp. 143-156.
Lorenzo Bernini Le teorie queer: Un’introduzione Mimesis 2017 Si consiglia (non è obbligatoria) la lettura del primo capitolo Teoria critica e filosofia politica, pp. 13-54.
Stefano Petrucciani Modelli di filosofia politica Einaudi 2003 Soltanto le seguenti parti: cap. I. Territori e domande della filosofia politica, pp. 5-30; cap. IV. Il paradigma del contratto, paragrafi 1, 2, 4, 5, pp. 77-88 e 91-113; cap. V. Società civile e stato, par. 6, pp. 157-163; cap. VI. I Concetti della teoria politica, pp. 167-203.
Edward W.B. Du Bois Negri per sempre Armando Editore 2008 Soltanto i capitoli: La linea del colore, p. 69; La conservazione delle razze, pp. 70-79; Una considerazione finale, pp. 105-114; Gli uomini di talento, pp. 136-153; La dichiarazione di principi del Niagara Movement, pp. 173-176; NAACP, pp. 181-182; Il voto delle donne, pp. 184-185; Biografia di W.E.B Du Bois, pp. 197-204. Si raccomanda, soprattutto alle/agli studenti non frequentanti, la lettura dell'Introduzione di Raffaele Rauty, pp. 19-56.
Frantz Fanon Pelle nera, maschere bianche Edizioni ETS 2015 Soltanto i capitoli: Introduzione, pp. 25-31; IV. Sul presunto complesso di dipendenza del colonizzato, pp. 87-107; V. L'esperienza vissuta del nero, pp. 109-134; VI. Il negro e la psicopatologia, pp. 135-188. Si raccomanda, soprattutto alle/agli studenti non frequentanti, la lettura dell'Introduzione di Vinzia Fiorino, pp. I-XV.

Examination Methods

Final exam:
For both attending and non-attending students: oral exam (from January to September 2021).
The students are required to bring the readings at the exam.

The evaluation will be based on:
- pertinence of the answers,
- consequentiality of the arguments,
- ability to think in a personal and independent way.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, the oral exam will be held online.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE