Università Roma Tre

Title: Habits and Customs between Reproduction and Transformation
The course aims at presenting one of the main nodes of the Philosophies of Habit, that is the reflection on the relationship between crisis and modification of individual and social habits at the heart of several philosophical reflections on habit from modernity onwards, with particular attention to the development that this theme assumes especially from the 19th century, at the crossroads between philosophy, psychology and social sciences. The first didactic unit (3 CFU) will be devoted to an overview of philosophical theories on habits and customs, from antiquity onwards, with particular attention to the twentieth-century theories of Dewey and Bourdieu. The second didactic unit (3 CFU) will focus on the relationship between crisis and interruption of habits, starting from the analysis of some texts of the late nineteenth century (Dumont, Peirce), and extending the attention to traumatic historical-social events such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

Erasmus Students' Programme:
1.Clare Carlisle, On Habit, London, Routledge, 2014.
2. Dromelet, C. & Piazza, M. (2022). Habit and Custom in the History of Early Modern Philosophy. In D. Jalobeanu & Ch. Wolfe (eds.), Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (789-797). Cham: Springer.
3. Charles Sanders Peirce, The Fixation of Belief. Popular Science Monthly 12 (1):1877-1878, pp. 1-15.
4. Charles S. Peirce, How to make our ideas clear, Popular Science Monthly 12 (1): 1877-1878, pp. 286-302.
5. William James, The Laws of habit, Popular Science Monthly, 30, 1887, pp. 433-451.
6. Corinna Guerra, Marco Piazza (eds.), Disruption of Habits during the Global Pandemic, Milan, Mimesis International, 2022 (a selection of almost five chapters).