Corso di laurea magistrale in Scienze storiche

 To hightlight the evolution and the great importance of the polyvalent marxian papers on the basis of the studies of a large number of modern and contemporary historians and on the basis of some texts, well-known or  not so much known, written by Karl Marx. Times and occurences here considered are different and distant fron themselves as far as the chronolgicall and geopolitical ground is concernrd. See the relationship and the perspectives of those who have preceeded Marx (particularly Spinoza), the english revolution of the XVIIth century, the french revolution of the XVIIIth, the jacobins and the bonapartist Empire, the international politics, the wars, Russia, the East and the West. The historians however can't, in their scientific interpretations of  the present perfect or of the simple past, evade the solicitations of the time in which they live, work and think. Then, is always the historical research about every past, as Benedetto Croce wrote, also a contemporary history ? Anyway, trhe course will be predominantly marxian (that's on Marx) and never marxist (that's on a dogmatic scholarship or a doctrine)

On the way to doing a frequent and direct contact with the students, the teacher will stimulate their opinions and their interests. So, he’ll try to verify, as already happened in the past years, their state of learning. In any case, this procedure will be explained beginning the first lesson. The results of the dialogue with the students will be the knowledge and the ability of learning, the talent in the application to the studies knowledge and learning, the following and precious autonomy of judgement, the communicative capabilities and the personal success in the research and in the studies.

 The duration of every lesson will be two hours. A long time, in the first hours,  as context, shall be dedicate to explain the political and social history of Europe in the XIXth century. The course, over the classic 36 hours of didactics, will have also 12 hours of collaboration between the teacher and students with practices and seminars.

The teacher will consider the students, during the oral examinations, on the basis of the acquired knowledges and of the abilities in understanding and in the expression. The teacher moreover will consider  the general culture, not only in the historiographical and political fields,  but also, on the whole, in the linguistic and classical fields. The in-depht end necessary knowledge of some stranger languages will be appreciated very much.

 Karl Marx, theory and histotiography, international politics, state and criticism of politics, classes, socialism

 Texts for final examination

 Karl Marx, Quaderno Spinoza 1841, a cura di Bruno Bongiovanni, Bollati Boringhieri,  Torino 1987

 Bruno Bongiovanni, Le repliche della storia. Karl Marx tra la rivoluzione francese e la critica della politica, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1989

 Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels, Manifesto del partito comunista, a cura di Bruno Bongiovanni, Einaudi, Torino 1998 (1st ed.) or other editions as this and after this ( the last is the 15th ed., Einaudi, Torino 2014)

 

 

  Wide bibliographical informations, with the history of the political thought, and the knowledge of european society during the XIXth xentrury, main centre of attention, will be supplied  during the course.

 The course is unitary and involves immediately, after the pass of the examination, 6 credits. A very high and, if possible, uninterrupted frequency, is recommended.