POLITICAL SYMBOLOGY
SIMBOLICA POLITICA
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2024/2025 | 6 |
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| Domenico Scalzo | The office hours for students will be indicated at beginning of the Course |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
German
French
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course is aimed to the basic comprehension of political symbolics through the study of the question of labour, work and action. The corse wants to introduce students to the political and philosophical comprehension of the work in politics through the reading an interpretation of suggested books.
Program
The program focuses on two main books for the exam and a series of recommended readings.
The topic is the labour and the work
The classes will go through the idea of workinto the classic and modern philosophy.
The main reference will be the philosophy ogf Arendt and Agamben .
Below some keywords that will be discussed during lessons:
Labour and work
power and will
politics and law
action and language
Bridging Courses
anything
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
The learning achievements and the competences to be acquired are in line with those required by a bachelor in Political Sciences of International Relations. In particular, they are related to the acquisition of knowledge and comprehension of papers that allow to elaborate original ideas into a wider and multidisciplinary research environment. The course help the students to acquire competences and skills in order to deal with new and unconventional topics and to manage complexity. Finally to communicate the acquired competences in a clear and complete way.
Teaching Material
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
Supporting Activities
The supporting activities will be communicaded at the beginning of the lessons. The teaching material prepared by the lecturer (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises) and specific communications from the lecturer can be found, together with other supporting activities, inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
The supporting activities includes also two seminars. The dates will be communicated during the course and uploaded on the online platform.
The Europe Union to work by Salvatore Scalzo
Imagine, work, Politics by Walter Bernardini.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
frontal lessons and seminaries
- Attendance
nothing
- Course books
Texsts of exam:
Giorgio Agamben, Creazione e Anarchia, Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2017.
Hannah Arendt, Vita activa, tr. it. di S. Finzi, Bompiani, Milano 1999
A one choise between the five books:
Giorgio Agamben, L'irrealizzabile, Einaudi, Torino 2022;
Giorgio Agamben, L'uso dei corpi, Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2014;
Giorgio Agamben, Altissima povertà, Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2012;
Roberto Ciccarelli, Forza lavoro, Deriveapprodi, Bologna 2018;
G. Simmel, Filosofia del lavoro, tr. it. di F. Valagussa, Mimesis, Milano 2018;
- Assessment
oral exam
- 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.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
On appointement (during office hours), The Professor is avaiable to give detailed information about the course and the books to the Non-attending Students. Further information will be uploaded on the online platform.
- Attendance
anyrhing
- Course books
Texsts of exam:
Giorgio Agamben, Creazione e Anarchia, Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2017.
Hannah Arendt, Vita activa, tr. it. di S. Finzi, Bompiani, Milano 1999
A one choise between the five books:
Giorgio Agamben, L'irrealizzabile, Einaudi, Torino 2022;
Giorgio Agamben, L'uso dei corpi, Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2014;
Giorgio Agamben, Altissima povertà, Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2012;
Roberto Ciccarelli, Forza lavoro, Deriveapprodi, Bologna 2018;
G. Simmel, Filosofia del lavoro, tr. it. di F. Valagussa, Mimesis, Milano 2018;
- Assessment
oral exam
- 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.
Notes
The student can request to sit the final exam in English with an alternative bibliography.
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