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Teacher
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RAPARELLI FRANCESCO
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Uncertainty and trust: anthropology, society, economics
We live in a world dominated by uncertainty. While technologies enable increasingly efficient predictive analyses, economic crises, pandemics and wars continually destabilise certainties and expectations, social security and the professional position of individuals, rights and institutions. These increasingly recurring events elude simple risk calculation and display a radical uncertainty against which predictive analyses do not work. An anthropological issue as well as an epistemological one: radical uncertainty is reduced or mastered, in social and economic systems, through trust. But what, precisely, is trust? And how can it be achieved? We will see, finally, that trust, one of the most valuable political resources, is destabilised by the very mechanisms that should foster it.
(reference books)
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Keynes J. M., Teoria generale dell’occupazione, dell’interesse e della moneta (1936), capitolo 12, pp. 333-350 (anche su Moodle in PDF).
Keynes J. M., Teoria generale dell'occupazione (1937), scaricabile in PDF su Moodle.
Luhmann N., La fiducia (1968), capitoli IV, VII (anche su Moodle in PDF).
Simmel G., Filosofia del denaro (1900), pp. 151-156 (anche su Moodle in PDF).
Simmel G., Il segreto e le società segrete in Sociologia (1908), capitolo V, pp. 291-304 (anche su Moodle in PDF).
Simmel G., L’auto-conservazione del gruppo sociale, Excursus sulla fedeltà e sulla gratitudine in Sociologia (1908), capitolo VIII, pp. 498-503 (anche su Moodle in PDF).
Wittgenstein L., Della Certezza, § 61-65; § 94-99; § 105-115; § 139-141; § 150-152; § 159-163; § 204 e 205; § 247-257; § 336; § 341-344; § 356-359; § 471-473; § 476; § 498-511; § 559; § 611 e 612.
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