Università Roma Tre

In the course we will analyse in a reflective manner the relationship between political philosophy and political science on the one hand, and between political philosophy and the history of political thought on the other. This exercise serves the purpose of better situating 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. 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 second part of the course is concerned with the critique of power and sovereignty in the thought of Michel Foucault (see the section Testi adottati e bibliografia di riferimento).

1) PORTINARO, Pier Paolo, Il lessico del potere. L'arte di governo dall'antichità alla globalizzazione, Carocci, Roma 2021 (ISBN 978-88-290-0563--5)

2) FOUCAULT, Michel, Nascita della biopolitica. Corso al Collège de France (1978-1979), a cura di M. Senellart, trad. it. di M. Bertani, V. Zini, Feltrinelli, Milano 2015 (ISBN 978-88-07-88654-6)

3) MAIOLO, Francesco, Foucault e la sovranità, Aracne Editrice, Roma 2012 (ISBN 978-88-548-5068-2)