Università Roma Tre

CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME -

- Human rights in the philosophical perspective: ontology and epistemology in the theory of human rights
- Freedom, justice as fairness and the ethics of democratic discourse: Rawls, Habermas and the challenges of postmodern critique
- Conceptions of autonomy and vulnerability in Honneth
- The psychological foundation of fundamental rights' fruition
– The Hegelian roots of the struggles for recognition: the social "fabric of justice" and the moral grammar of social conflicts
- The right to freedom and the social foundation of democratic ethical life
- The reasons for the existence of legal and moral freedom and their pathologies respectively
- Social freedom and the three registers of the ‘We’ of personal relationships
- Recognition and and free market: the sphere of consumption, the labour market and environmental sustainability
- Democracy and fundamental rights: the open society and hyper-pluralism
- Democracy, multiculturalism and liberalism
- Justifications and controversies around "political liberalism"

The course is taught in English.

- EXAM MATERIALS FOR MASTER STUDENTS -

1) HONNETH, Axel, "Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life", translated by J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4)

2) HONNETH, Axel, ANDERSON, Joel., "Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition and Justice" (2005) (the article in question is available at the section FILES of the Team THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2023/2024 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS). In the case of difficulties in accessing the Team concerned and in getting hold of the article in question, please, promptly contact the teacher.

3) Extra-reading materials will be supplemented in class.

- EXAM MATERIALS FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS

1) HONNETH, Axel, "Freedom’s Right. The Social Foundations of Democratic Life", translated by J. Ganahl, Polity Press, Cambridge 2014 (ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-6943-4)

N.B. - Chapter 6.3 (The 'We' of Democratic Will-Formation) is not mandatory reading, hence to be excluded

2) HONNETH, Axel, ANDERSON, Joel., "Autonomy, Vulnerability, Recognition and Justice" (2005) (the article in question is available in the section FILES of the Team THEORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS 2023/2024 on the platform MICROSOFT TEAMS).In the case of difficulties in accessing the Team concerned and in getting hold of the article in question, please, promptly contact the teacher.