Course teached as: B003399 - STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA POLITICA 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in PHILOSOPHY
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to provide the necessary knowledge to introduce the students to the study of the reception of Machiavelli e Hobbes in the American philosophy of the 20th century. Students will have to acquire an adequate mastery of philosophical vocabulary and awareness in the Anglo-American world.
T.Hobbes, Leviathan, Oxford UP, 2008; N. Machiavelli, Disocurses, Oxford UP, 2008; D. Coli, Hobbes, Roma e Machiavelli nell'Inghilterra degli Stuart, Le Lettere 2009; Q, Skinner, Liberty before Liberalism, Cambridge UP, 2012; H.J. Morgenthau, Politics amongs Nations, Knop, 1954; J.G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment, Princeton UP 1980.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to make the students familiar with the reception of Machiavelli and Hobbes in the Anglo-American world and to consider how many interpretations and debates these two great European thinkers produced in the Anglo-American world.
Prerequisites
to be students of the third year
Teaching Methods
Frontal lesson
Further information
Students can write to daniela.coli@unifi.it
Type of Assessment
In the oral examination, students must show the skills acquired during the course, applying the ability to address the texts, to undertake with different historical contexts, and to express themselves with appropriate vocabulary.
Course program
Analysis of the interpretations and the debates on Machiavelli and Hobbes in American political philosophy in the 20th century.