Università Roma Tre

In the first part of the course, taking into account the specificity of the object of our study, the method of investigation and its objectives, we will analyse in a reflective manner the relationship between political philosophy and political science on the one hand, and with the history of political thought on the other. More generally, we will have the opportunity to situate political philosophy in the context of the political and social sciences in order to grasp its specific epistemological status, and the link with the sphere of historically and culturally given values. This responds to the need to critically reflect on the ways in which politics has been "rationalized" in the context of Western thought, and on the ways that have guided the various attempts at such rationalization. We will focus on the analysis of the questions concerning the nature of "matters of politics" and the determination of the "political good" both in the individual and in the collective sense through the various interpretative grids that constitute the essential reference points on the subject. In the second part of the course a series of problems will be analyzed: political order between human nature and the human condition; the question of social justice; authority, power, freedom and obedience; public ethics, the common good, freedom of speech and democracy. The third part of the course is dedicated specifically to the critique of power and sovereignty in the thought of Michel Foucault.

Roberto Gatti, Filosofia politica. Gli autori, i concetti, i problemi, Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 2016 (ISBN 978-88-350-2727-0)
Francesco Maiolo, Foucault e la sovranità, Aracne Editrice, Roma 2012 (ISBN 978-88-548-5068-2).