- Knowledge and understanding. The student must demonstrate that he/she has acquired a basic knowledge of the main theories of individual, social and political power.
- Application skills. The student must demonstrate that he/she is able to apply the notions learned to concrete contexts and specific cases.
- Making judgements. The student must demonstrate that he/she is able to take reasoned and sustainable positions with reference to the topics covered by the course.
- Communication skills. The student must demonstrate that he/she is able to express the notions acquired with argumentative coherence, systematic rigor, language properties and originality.
- Ability to learn. The student must demonstrate the ability to reconstruct the historical and evolutionary profiles of the subject and the related social and cultural phenomena.
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Lectures, accompanied by debate exercises among students, who are required to defend a given position with rigorous and effective arguments. The seminar reading of texts is carried out interactively, with the requirement of having read the text before the lesson and the performance of a textual analysis in the classroom.
The exam consists of an oral interview in which the following aspects will be evaluated:
- Accurate knowledge of the course contents, in particular of the texts assigned and discussed in the classroom (40%)
- Accuracy of language with reference to content and authors (25%)
- Clarity and systematicity of the presentation (25%)
Personal elaboration of the contents (10%)
The course offers an introduction to the most influential theories of power in the philosophical tradition, also in comparison with sociological and historical elaborations. Particular attention is paid to contemporary theories of social power, through authors such as Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Herbert Marcuse and Axel Honneth.
