2023/2024
Идеализм в политической мысли Италии от Средних веков до XX века
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Статус:
Дисциплина общефакультетского пула
Кто читает:
Школа философии и культурологии
Когда читается:
3 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Моисеев Дмитрий Сергеевич
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This is an introduction to the intellectual history of Italian political Idealism with a focus on major figures of Italian political culture and thought from the Middle Ages to the XX century – from Dante to Benedetto Croce. The intellectual journey starts in the heat of the Middle Ages in the company of Dante and his thoughts on the nature of power. It continues in the Renaissance with an indirect polemical dispute between the pragmatist Machiavelli and the idealist Campanella. The Italian Idealist political thought of the XVIII century is represented by Giambattista Vico. Then we will discuss the birth of modern Italian Idealist philosophy from Catholic and Republican currents of pre-Unification (Risorgimento) period as well as the principal opponents of Idealism. Going deeper in the XX century, we’ll discuss the corporatist ideas with connection to Idealism and will critically examine the impact of Idealism on the rise and fall of Italian Fascism.
Learning Objectives
- The course is mandatory. It is prepared for the Broad Bachelor programme. It requires no prior knowledge – just an interest in the history of European thought and politics. Any particular interest in Italian culture, history and philosophy is welcome. The course is mostly theoretical. It’s designed to show the students the development of political destiny of Italy based on a number of most important cultural heroes, political theorists and intellectuals since the Middle Ages until the end of World War Two. The course critically examines the impact of Idealist thought and its critiques on the process of Italian national building, unification of the state, rise and fall of Fascism. Reading the texts on Dante, Campanella, Vico, Mazzini, Croce and other influential masterminds of Italian political culture, students would be able to understand the importance of ideas and the role of intellectuals at the crossroads of one nation’s political history.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Understanding the deeper connection between political thought and practical politics.
- Realizing the problem of nation building in modern times and the essential links between cultural and national identity.
- The knowledge of the major figures of Italian political thought, most important thinkers, theories and works.
- The knowledge of the general characteristics and specifics of the theories belonging to different political currents of Italian Idealism in different epochs: Catholic, “Natural Religion”, Republican, Liberal, Fascist.
- Understanding the links between literary genres and political projects (treatise, “mirror for the prince”, utopia, manifesto).
- Students would be able to reconstruct the major turning points of Italian political and intellectual history of the last 700 years.
- The influence of Catholic and Republican Idealism on the process of Italian unification (Risorgimento) would be examined.
- The link between academic political philosophy and political ideologies would be clear as at the end of the course we will discuss two political manifestos that completely contradict each other – while being of the same philosophical root.
Assessment Elements
- Current ControlAttendance, Seminar Activity.
- Research paperResearch paper in English, 8.000 – 10.000 characters with spaces.
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. (1904). The De monarchia of Dante Alighieri. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.EFE71B9
- The Risorgimento revisited : nationalism and culture in nineteenth-centure Italy, , 2012
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Cassell, A. K., Dante Alighieri, Catholic Church, & Vernani, G. (2004). The Monarchia Controversy : An Historical Study with Accompanying Translations of Dante Alighieri’s Monarchia, Guido Vernani’s Refutation of the Monarchia Composed by Dante and Pope John XXII’s Bull, Si Fratrum. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=498840
- Italian vices : nation and character from the Risorgimento to the republic, Patriarca, S., 2010