Il corso intende fornire un'ampia rassegna della strumentazione critica offerta dalle scienze umane contemporanee, dall'antropologia alla sociologia, dalla teoria della storia all'economia politica, dalla psiconalisi alla filosofia, dai gender studies ai postcolonial studies. L'obiettivo fondamentale è quello di formare uno sguardo capace di cogliere i nessi profondi della crisi contemporanea attraverso un'apertura ad un sapere interdisciplinare ed ad un'attitudine che sappia valorizzare la grande tradizione della critica della società.
Il carattere interdisciplinare e internazionale del corso è rafforzato dal gemellaggio con la Universidad de Buenos Aires, e dalla collaborazione con lo Instituto Conhecimento Liberta.
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Teoria critica della società
Milano
Professional training
Italian
8 months
blended
Vision
Mission
Le competenze fornite nel corso possono risultare fondamentali come formazione e completamento per l'attività in ruoli politici e sindacali di vario livello, nelle realtà associazionali e nel settore no‐profit, nonché come integrazione della preparazione all'attività giornalistica nelle specializzazioni più legate all'analisi politico‐sociale. Il corso costituisce anche un valido aggiornamento per l'attività di insegnamento nelle scuole superiori e più in generale per tutte le professioni pedagogiche.
Structure
Le lezioni saranno fruibili in presenza e a distanza, in modalità asincrona.
La Facoltà di Scienze Sociali della Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) organizza in parallelo al TCS un corso di aggiornamento dal titolo Tiempo liminal. Pensamiento latinoamericano para un mundo incierto.
In virtù di un gemellaggio con questa istituzione, gli studenti che desiderano conseguire anche il titolo del corso UBA dovranno sostituire 9 CFU del corso nostro corso con altrettanti insegnamenti erogati del corso di Buenos Aires.
Si potrà usufruire delle lezioni erogate da UBA via e-learning, oppure di persona. In quest'ultimo caso, le spese di viaggio, vitto e alloggio sono a carico dello studente. È necessaria la conoscenza della lingua spagnola.
Grazie a un partenariato con lo Instituto Conhecimento Liberta (ICL), sarà inoltre possibile fruire di alcuni seminari extra, in lingua portoghese.
Teaching Organization
232 hours of Lessons
Exams and Attendance
1
FINAL TEST
For a total of 29 CFU
REQUIRED
75 %
OF HOURS OF ATTENDANCE
Courses
- The issue of historical facts, the dimensions of historical knowledge, source criticism, and the necessary connection of historical knowledge with other disciplines such as human geography, economics, demography, and ethnology.
- Examination of key concepts that constitute the conditions for conceiving any philosophy of history: the concepts of historical time, epoch, social totality, individual and collective action.
- Proposal of a theory of history that stands outside the secularization of the major theological frameworks of eschatology and teleology.
24 HOURS
3 CFU
- The history of European law and its spread beyond Europe.
- Non-European legal systems before and after their encounter with Western civilization.
16 HOURS
2 CFU
24 HOURS
3 CFU
- Historical and theoretical overview of the relationship between Marxist theory and feminist theory.
- Marxist interpretations of feminism from the 1970s to contemporary debates.
- Critical discussion of major thematic issues — social reproduction; production and reproduction; patriarchy and capitalism — aimed at providing analytical tools for understanding the present.
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Freudo-Marxist theories of sexual liberation (Mieli)
- Constructivist theories of sexuality (Foucault) and performative theories of gender (Butler)
- Antisocial queer theories (Bersani, Edelman)
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Disability Studies
- The identity of people with disabilities
- Processes of emancipation and inclusion, and the ever-renewed forms of stigmatization that persist in the era of human rights proclamations, neoliberal policies, and cultures.
- The feminist strand of Disability Studies and the (de)sexualization of disability
- The relationship between gender, sexuality, and somatic otherness.
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Cinema as the discipline that studies how the antagonism of reality "appears"
- The tools of psychoanalysis (Lacan, Copjec, Zupančič), critical Marxism (Jameson), and image theory
- Contemporary audiovisual productions as symptoms and reifications of social antagonisms
- Social conflicts in cinema
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Introduction to Postcolonial Studies and the centrality of colonialism in understanding modernity and contemporary society.
- An overview of the emergence of these studies as literary criticism with Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and their expansion into all historical and social disciplines.
16 HOURS
2 CFU
- Introduction to selected aspects of the philosophy developed through the practical and theoretical work of the Kurdish confederal movement, the women of the Jineolojî Committees, and the philosopher Abdullah Öcalan.
- Exploration of the relationship between this political doctrine and the Syrian context, as well as its complex and contradictory relationship with Western European leftist movements.
- Focus on the concepts of authority, modernity, rationality, and spectrality, on key critical implications of confederal philosophy, and on its dialogue with certain theoretical positions of classic European philosophical thinkers (Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Max Weber, John L. Austin, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida).
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Critical introduction to the notion of ideology based on the original theoretical perspective opened by Althusserian reflection.
- The notion of ideology rethought by Althusser, drawing on Spinoza and the contributions of psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), in a strictly materialist sense, in opposition to certain Marxist traditions and some formulations by Marx and Engels themselves.
- A careful critical analysis of the key concept of Althusserian theory, namely the concept of “interpellation.”
Introduction and discussion of the concept of “over-interpellation.” - The Althusserian theory of “interpellation” in contemporary critical thought, particularly in the work of Slavoj Žižek, Ernesto Laclau, and Jodi Dean.
16 HOURS
2 CFU
- Historical-conceptual overview of the methods and strategies of analysis through which anthropology has developed a specific critical reflection.
- Presentation and discussion of studies that intersect economic-political analysis and ethnographic analysis.
- The global effects of capitalism on the most vulnerable social groups or those located in the so-called “peripheries of the world-system.”
- Historical-anthropological analysis of long-term global processes that influence the social life of local communities, producing new culturally informed subjectivities and forms of resistance.
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Historical and anthropological analysis of the logics and practices of exploitation and valorization of capital that operate through the international division of labor, class, ethnicity, and gender distinctions.
- Historical analysis and ethnographic study of local production processes within the context of the global economy.
- Main themes and analytical methodologies of Global Labour History.
- Ethnographic case studies intersecting the issues of labor with class, gender, and ethnicity.
- Study of the unequal distribution of wealth, environmental degradation, and social changes caused by the expansion of the world economy, along with the analysis of “bottom-up” alternatives developed by workers and marginalized groups to overcome or transform capitalist relations of production and power.
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Analysis of key classics in sociological thought, with an in-depth study of its history and the political content of some of its fundamental concepts.
- Sociology as a critical science of society, its hierarchies, and its powers.
16 HOURS
2 CFU
16 HOURS
2 CFU
- Historical analysis of the Soviet phenomenon.
- Study of the convergence with and divergence from an ideal-typical model of totalitarian control and of a socialist and communist society.
- Examination of the contradictory persistence of a strict adherence to Marxism-Leninism alongside its modification/distortion, the will to impose a regime of total efficiency, and the ongoing presence of pervasive phenomena such as resistance, chaos, insubordination, inefficiency, and particular interests.
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Analysis of a series of case studies from Sub-Saharan Africa and reflection on the relationships between environment, social inequalities, and power asymmetries.
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Introduction to a political history of art, exploring debates and works reflecting on the relationship between art and social change.
- Study of selected episodes where art and art theory questioned their own raison d’être, including contemplating the abolition of art as a separate sphere from politics and life.
- The productivist experiment, theoretical proposals of Arvatov and Bogdanov in post-revolutionary Russia, and Lu Märten’s challenge to Western art taxonomies.
- The debate on the autonomy and heteronomy of art initiated by the Frankfurt School, especially Adorno.
- The 1960s–70s: examination of artistic practices and feminist theories questioning the boundary between art and life (Lonzi, Lozano), and attempts to rethink art as labor, including trade unions, strikes, and acts of refusal (Vishmidt, Beech, Child).
- Analysis of recent theoretical interventions outlining an ontology of contemporary art from a materialist perspective (Osborne, Groys).
Attempts to reinterpret Western aesthetic philosophy through critical categories from postcolonial theory and Black studies (Lloyd, Black).
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Presentations of the transformations of the narrative of the Resistance, from the very first texts published even before April 25th to the 1980s, intersecting the more strictly literary production with public debate, the evolution of historiographical research, and other media.
- Focus on narrative with some in-depth studies of exemplary texts (especially by Giorgio Caproni, Beppe Fenoglio, and Italo Calvino).
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Overview of theories linking the formation and development of the city to capitalist economic dynamics.
- Definition and reproduction of social relations.
- Analysis of ideological processes triggered and reproduced in everyday life by the urban environment.
16 HOURS
2 CFU
- The role of the educational system (in advanced capitalist systems).
- The contributions of the education system to the formation and stabilization of a given social structure.
- The issue of education policies, highlighting their structural and intrinsic systemic fragility.
- The structural problems of the education system as a tool for general social mobility.
8 HOURS
1 CFU
- Formation of capitalism through the interplay of agrarian transformations, the development of the labor market, and migrations from a comparative perspective.
- Formation of workers’ associative forms in a complex process that leads to the emergence of modern trade unions.
8 HOURS
1 CFU
56 HOURS
0 CFU
Scientific Committee
Director
Committee members
Michele
Parodi
Parodi
Libero professionista
Gianluca
Pozzoni
Pozzoni
Assegnista
What skills do you gain?
Theory of history
Law and Theory of the State
Economics and Society
Feminism and Marxism
Queer Studies
Disability Studies
Theory and Ideology
Postcolonial Studies
Ecology and democracy between Kurdistan and Europe
Political Philosophy
Social Theory and Critical Anthropology
Global Studies on labour
Introduction to Social Theory
Critical psychoanalytic theory
Political History of the Soviet Union
Political Ecology
Political history of arts
Theory of Urban Space
The formation of capitalism and the birth of trade
Educational system and social reproduction
Come funziona il razzismo globale?
Teoria critica della società
Who is it aimed at ?
RECENT GRADUATES
in Filosofia e nei differenti ambiti di Scienze Umane.
in Filosofia e nei differenti ambiti di Scienze Umane.
PROFESSIONALS
che operano nel sociale, sindacalisti, giornalisti e docenti delle scuole secondarie.
che operano nel sociale, sindacalisti, giornalisti e docenti delle scuole secondarie.
Il corso è rivolto a studenti di filosofia e dei differenti ambiti delle scienze umane e sociali desiderosi di ampliare le loro conoscenze, ma anche a professionisti del sociale, sindacalisti, giornalisti e docenti delle scuole secondarie.
