POLITICS AND IDEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
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Oral exam. During the text, the candidate is required to answer four questions, two for each part of the course. The final mark will be based on the following criteria: 60% accuracy and quality of answer, 30% ability to motivate statements, 10 % abilities shown during exam.
The course aims to offer the students the tools to evaluate, in the most rigorous way possible, whether a given current of thought or a specific world view can be traced back to the world of ideology or if it is characterized the same structural features of ideologie.
The course will be divide into three parts. In the first part, the political importance of fairy tales will be analysed. In the second part Jacobin political ideology will be studied. In the third part, the meaning of the terms totalitarianism and dictatorship will be defined, and the ideological penetration into German society during Nazism will be studied.
Classes and seminars. During the course, some videos of speeches of politicians will be shown, to analyze, with a group work, whether ideological or not.
The professor is available to meet with students after each lesson, without appointment. For any further communication related to the examination, contact via email: luca.daris@uninsubria.it