Classes will consist of
1. Introductory lectures and analysis of excerpts from the following books:
H.Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, World Pub. Co. 1958.
J. L.Austin, How to do things with words, Harvard University Press 1975.
E. Cassirer, Language and Myth, Dover, 1953.
J. Baudrillard: The Gulf war did not occur (from Selected Writings, Stanford University Press, 2001).
M. Foucault, Power/Knowledge, Pantheon Books 1980.
T. Golway, ed., Words that ring through time: from Moses and Pericles to Obama : fifty-one of the most important speeches in history and how they changed our world. Overlook, 2009.
I. Kant, Political writings, Cambridge Un. Press, Cambridge 1991.
Longinus On the Sublime (online)
N. Luhmann, The reality of the mass media, Stanford University Press 2000.
K.Marx, 18th Brumair of Louis Bonaparte online
C.S.Peirce, Selected writings, Dover 1966.
G. Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, Free Press 1950.
I. Wallerstein, European Universalism: the Rhetoric of Power, New Press New York 2006.
L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Blackwell 1986.
2. Seminars on analysed topics. Each seminar will be recorded by written minutes, which will be examined collectively.
3. Analysing speeches in Golway and screening and examining of the following films:
The Mattei Affair, 1972, by F. Rosi
Der Tod des Flohzirkusdirektors by T. Koerfer, 1973 youtube?
Il divo by P. Sorrentino, 2008
4. Reading newspapers and political leaders’ speeches.
5. Written homework, consisting of two papers. In-class exams, consisting of elaborations of analyzed topics.