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CIPOLLETTA PATRIZIA
(syllabus)
The course aims to examine the issue of utopia in occidental’s historical path to our world’s dystopias. The purpose of the course, bearing in mind the memory of the past, is to evaluate the possibility of a good future world, or if dreaming such a world is just a way to not deal with today’s problems.
(reference books)
• Repubblica di Platone 471 c – 509 b, chosen pages • K. Mannheim, Ideologia e Utopia, il Mulino 1999, pp. 55-105 and pp. 189-257 • R. Trousson, La distopia e la sua storia and G. Seclì, La pseudoutopia del modello cibernetico, in Utopia e distopia a cura di A. Colombo, Dedalo 1987, pp. 19-34 and 117- 27 125 • Cosimo Quarta, Homo utopicus, edizioni Dedalo 2015
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