Università Roma Tre

Madness in the Modern age

The first part of the course (6 CFU) will primarily be characterized by an ample introduction to the methodology with which the fundamental elements of cultural history are delineated. The initial sessions of the course will explore the characteristics of madness in the modern age, including diagnosis, treatment and care.


In the second part of the course (12 CFU), the cultural and social meaning of madness will be analyzed, especially in Italy in the first centuries of the modern age, that is to say in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (although there will be no lack of in-depth exploration of these issues, for the most part through a comparison with later and more recent eras). Finally, interdisciplinary incursions will be made into the history of art, literature, philosophy, and the history of cinema.

I MODULO (6 CFU)
- A. Arcangeli, Che cos’è la storia culturale, Roma, Carocci
- M. Foucault, Storia della follia nell’età classica (edite by di M. Galzigna), Milano, BUR

Per gli studenti non frequentanti:
- S. Catucci, Introduzione a Foucault, Roma-Bari, Laterza


II MODULO (6 CFU)
- L. Roscioni, Il governo della Follia. Ospedali, medici e pazzi nell’età moderna, Milano, Bruno Mondadori
- Lettura di L. Binswanger, Malinconia e Mania. Studi fenomenologici, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, or L. Binswanger, Sogno ed esistenza. Introduzione di Michel Foucault, Milano, SE