Università Roma Tre

The first classes will be dedicated to the analysis of the main concepts and categories of political thought: moderna state, natural law and natural rights, contract theory, constitutionalism, representation, sovereignty, democracy. Then classics political thinkers and topics will be examined.
- Utopia and dystopian thought
- Machiavelli
– Modern state and absolutism
– Absolutism and sovereignty in Jean Bodin
- Thomas Hobbes
– The origins of classical liberalism: John Locke
- Montesquieu
– Lights and shadows of Enlightment: Rousseau and the general will
- Theoretical aspects of the American Revolution
- Theoretical aspects of the French Revolution
– The debate on the American democracy: Tocqueville
– Socialism and Karl Marx.
– The élite theorists: Mosca, Pareto and Michels.
– Totalitarianism
– Against totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Friedrick von Hayek, Karl Popper.
– Classical liberalism in the Twentieth century: the Austrian School of Economics: Menger, Mises, Hayek
- The contemporary debate on justice:Rawls, Rothbard, Nozick
– Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum

- L.M. BASSANI – A. MINGARDI, Dalla polis allo Stato. Introduzione alla Storia del pensiero politico, Giappichelli, Torino, 2017

- Il pensiero politico contemporaneo, a cura di C. Galli, il Mulino, Bologna, 2011 (capitoli: II;VI;VIII)

- P. GRILLI DI CORTONA, R. A. MODUGNO, Le trame della democrazia. Riflessioni tra politologia e storia del pensiero politico, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2020.