The course aims to illustrate the debate that has gone through the Western political thought from the late Eighteenth Century to the present day, concerning the role of the state in relation to social suffering and economic inequality. The political culture which leads to the formations of a welfare will be compared to the «liberal» model of politics.
For the students, who are not going to attend the course, the program varies on the CFU:
9 cfu:
C. De Boni, Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo:
L'Ottocento, cap. 1,2,4;
Il Novecento. Parte Prima, cap. 1, 2, 3;
Il Novecento. Parte Seconda, cap. 1 and 2.
6 cfu:
C. De Boni, Lo stato sociale nel pensiero politico contemporaneo:
L'Ottocento, cap. 1,2,4;
Il Novecento. Parte Prima, cap. 1, 2, 3.
Learning Objectives
Main objective of the course is to address the many tools that history of political ideas has developed approaching a specific problem. In this sense, authors and texts are enhanced with new aspects of descriptive and concrete intervention in the political realm. The monographic theme chosen (the social and economic disparities and their consideration) makes it worthwhile analyzing the contributions from political theory (alongside those of sciences such as sociology or political economy).
Prerequisites
Students who want to attend this course are advised to take first the exam on History of Political Thought.
Teaching Methods
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Type of Assessment
The exam will be written and will consist of three open questions for the tests for 6 cfu and of four questions for tests for 9 cfu.
Course program
Prof. De Boni will hold the first and the second part of the course. The first part will retrace the initial phase of the debate that developed in Europe around the state's role in the conflicts and disruption of social order, with particular reference to the debate on poverty developed in England during the first industrial revolution. The lessons will focus on the ideological preparation in Germany of the first model of state’s intervention in the social sphere in the second half of the Nineteenth Century – that is the welfare state in the Bismarck’s era.
The second part will focus on three main topics: the debate between liberalism and individualist liberalism reformer aroused in Great Britain in the transition between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, the debate on reforms within and around the Second International, the formulation of the social programs of the nationalist in the early Twentieth Century.