The history of modern age is the history of the building of the universal concept of human being and of the gradual and progressive achievement of human freedom, in the frame of the democratic State. The class of History of modern philosophy aims to study the philosophical grounds of this age, but also its crisis factors. Modern age has been in fact a battelfield, inside which different and often alternative projects confronted one with the others. Even antimodern tendencies, together with the today dominant postmodern ones, can be unterstood only inside it.

1) The concept of mdoernity; 2) Modernity and emancipation; 3) The stages of Modernity; 4) Modernity and freedom, State and democracy; 5) Hegel and Marx; 6) Antimodernism inside ModernityM 7) Postmodernism.

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Students must understand concepts and theories explained; they must also be able to revise and transfer in their educational praxis the general basic principles introduced.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Widening texts available by link on Moodle platform.

Teaching

Lessons in presence.

Attendance

Not compulsory.

Course books

1) Stefano G. Azzarà: Democrazia cercasi. Dalla caduta del Muro a Renzi: sconfitta e mutazione della sinistra, bonapartismo postmoderno e impotenza della filosofia in Italia, Imprimatur Editore (tranne introduzione e conclusioni).

2) Stefano G. Azzarà: Ernesto Laclau: populismo e “egemonia” come ridefinizione postmoderna dell’universalismo politico (dispensa: sarà fornita dal docente).

3) Stefano G. Azzarà: Il Mito Transpolitico nella crisi delle culture della destra e della sinistra novecentesche (dispensa: sarà fornita dal docente).

4) Stefano G. Azzarà: Un Nietzsche italiano. Gianni Vattimo e le avventure dell'oltreuomo rivoluzionario, manifestolibri, Roma (tranne l'introduzione e l'intervista conclusiva).

5) Emiliano Alessandroni: Potenza ed eclissi di un sistema. Hegel e i fondamenti della trasformazione, Mimesis, Milano 2016 (pp. 9-79, 83-91, 162-184 ).

Assessment

Oral examinations, in order to verify the understanding of the basic concepts of the subject, the ability in articulating them in a broad argumentation, the ability in developing an authonomous and crirical methodology of reasoning. The examination will be based on the texts specified, for an evaluation of the acquired knowledge, but also on the thesis expounded by the teacher.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Not attending students muyst learn the same programm learned by attending ones, using also text and materials available on Moodle platform. Please conotact professor and their assistants.

Attendance

Not compulsory

Course books

As for attending students

Assessment

Oral examinations, in order to verify the understanding of the basic concepts of the subject, the ability in articulating them in a broad argumentation, the ability in developing an authonomous and crirical methodology of reasoning. The examination will be based on the texts specified, for an evaluation of the acquired knowledge.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.