000455L - SOCIAL THEORIES AND GLOBALIZATION

courses
ID:
000455L
Duration (hours):
72
CFU:
9
SSD:
STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
SOCIOLOGY AND CRIMINOLOGY /CORSO GENERICO Year: 3
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (07/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


Institutional Module (6CFU)
The Module aims to provide the main theoretical lines of the theories of social systems in contemporary thought. In this context, some essential critical structures of Marxian thought with respect to the critique of capitalist society will be deepened.
Theoretical and Practical Study Module (CFU 3)
The Module aims to acquire the main tools of investigation of the contemporary capitalist financial society.

Course Prerequisites


Institutional Module (6CFU)From 40to 48 hours of lessons in the classroom; from 85 to 102 hours of independent study.
Theoretical and Practical Study Module (CFU 3)From 18 to 24 hours of lessons in the classroom; from 51 to 57 hours of independent study.

Teaching Methods


Lectures

Assessment Methods


The exam is oral; the teacher may decide to carry out a written test.

Texts


nstitutional Module (6 credits)
I):a. General part: Social theories in the classics of 20th century philosophy (students will have to rely, in addition to their active participation in the course, on a good high school textbook: e. g. G. Cambiano - M. Mori – L. Fonnesu, Storia della filosofia occidentale, Il Mulino, Bologna).
b. Reading and commenting on passages from:K. Marx - F. Engels, Manifesto del partito comunista, traduzione e introduzione di Domenico Losurdo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005.K. Marx, Manoscritti economico-filosofici del 1844, tr. it. di E. Donaggio, Feltrinelli, Milano 2018.
Theoretical and Practical Study Module (CFU 3)
II.c. Monographic part: Relationship between globalization and contemporary financial capitalismBibliographical materialL. Gallino, Finanzcapitalismo. La civiltà del denaro in crisi, Einaudi, Torino 2011, pp. 5-84; pp. 133-143.T. Piketty, Il capitale nel XXI secolo, Bompiani, Milano 2018 (parti indicate durante le lezioni).C. Tuozzolo, Repubblica: lavoro, decrescita o finanza? Marx e il capitalismo della rendita finanziaria, in M. Failla, G. Marramao (a cura di), Civitas augescens. Includere e comparare nell'Europa di oggi, Leo S. Olschki, Firenze 2014, pp. 141-157.

Contents


M1 - Formal Institutional Module (CFU 6)
a) Social theories in the classics of 20th century philosophy: Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Marcuse, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Popper, Austin.
b) Reading and commenting on texts of philosophical literature.
Theoretical and Practical Study Module (CFU 3)
c)Reflection on the relationship between globalization, social inequalities and contemporary financial capitalism.

Course Language


Italian

Degrees

Degrees

SOCIOLOGY AND CRIMINOLOGY  
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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