Università Roma Tre

The course will analyze the techniques that institutionalize a structural function for our societies, such as transmission. The transmission of material and ideal things builds, consolidates and reinvents the concept of tradition, which has a less static content than that which is usually attributed to it. In the course of Western history, law and theology have contributed to refine the techniques of transmission so that the contents transmitted are not acquired once and for all, but are permanently and openly redefined. Also associated with the concept of transmission is that of reception, that is, an adequate, even obligatory, conduct by present and future users of what has been transmitted. Because the difference between transferring and transmitting lies precisely in the respect for a social and intergenerational concern that the former can ignore while the latter assigns itself as a goal. The course will be based on the analysis and commentary of some texts of Western legal and theological literature

The material will be distributed electronically from time to time during the lessons