The Western Tradition: Moral and Political Values

1. European values and moral traditions
Bibliography: I. Kant, An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? (1784).
2. Liberty & Autonomy
Bibliography: I. Berlin, Two concepts of liberty (1958), in Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1969; I. Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Section II (extract).
3. Equality & Fairness
Bibliography: E. Anderson, What is the Point of Equality?, "Ethics" 109, 2 (1999), pp. 287-337 (extracts); J. Rawls, Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical. Philosophy & Public Affairs, 14(3), 1985, pp. 223-251.
4. Fraternity & Solidarity
Bibliography: K. Bayertz, "Four Uses of 'Solidarity'", in Id. (ed.), Solidarity, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1999, pp. 3-28; J. Habermas, Democracy, Solidarity, and the European Crisis. Lecture delivered on 26 April 2013 at KU Leuven, Belgium.
5. Emancipation and Non-Western views
Bibliography: A. Honneth, The Original Idea: The Consummation of the Revolution in Social Freedom (2015), in Id., The Idea of Socialism, Polity Press, Cambridge 2007, pp. 1-26; D. Chakrabarty, The Idea of Provincializing Europe (2000), in Id., "Provincializing Europe", Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000, pp. 3-23.

In addition to the teaching and didactic materials of the course (slides, passages of texts commented by the teacher...), attendant and non-attendant students have to study the following works:

1) For the introduction: T. Ball, The Value of the History of Political philosophy, in G. Klosko (ed. by), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011 or W.B. Gallie, Essentially Contested Concepts, in "Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society", New Series, vol. 56 (1955-56), pp. 167-198;

2) For the section on political freedom: 2a) Q. Skinner, A Third Concept of Liberty, in "Proceedings of the British Academy", 117 (2002), pp. 237-268; 2b) P. Pettit, Freedom, in D. Estlund, The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012; 2c) A. Honneth, Three, Not Two, Concepts of Liberty: A Proposal to Enlarge Our Moral Self-Understanding, in R. Zuckert and J. Kreines (eds), Hegel on Philosophy in History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 177-192;

3) For the section on constitutionalism 3a) D.V.K. Steven, Benjamin Constant and Constitutionalism, in "Historia Constitucional", (2015), n. 16, pp. 19-46 and 3b) L. Rubinelli, Sieyès and the French Revolution, in Ead., Constituent Power: A History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 33-74;

4) For the section of critique: 4a) E. de La Boétie, The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, OLL: On Line Lybrary of Liberty: https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/kurz-the-discourse-of-voluntary-servitude and 4b) M. Foucault, What is Critique? and M. Foucault, What is Enlightenment?, in M. Foucault, The Politics of Truth, ed. by M.S. Lotringer and L. Hochroth, Los Angeles, Semiotext(e),2007, pp. 41-83 and 97120 or M. Walzer, The Practice of Social Criticism, in M. Walzer, Interpretation and Social Criticism, Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. 33-66;

5) For the section on feminism: 5a) A Carastathis, The Concept of Intersectionality in Feminist Theory, «Philosophy Compass» (2014), pp. 304-314 (https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/phc3.12129) and 5b) A. Cavarero, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist Rewriting of Ancient Philosophy, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995 or C. Arruzza, T. Bhattacharya and N. Fraser, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, London Verso 2019 or C. Bottici, Anarcafeminism, New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, ch. 1 and 2, pp. 28-76.

Suggested, but not compulsory, works for non attendant students:

F. Lovett, Republicanism, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/republicanism/
M. Bevir, The Contextual Approach, in G. Klosko (ed. by), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011
C. Corradetti, The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory, C Corradetti, in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: ttps://iep.utm.edu/frankfur/#:~:text
R. Bellamy, Constitutionalism, in Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/topic/constitutionalism
N. Hirschmann, Feminism, in G. Klosko (ed. by), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011
N. McAfee and K.B. Howard, Feminist Political Philosophy, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/feminism-political/
S. Newman, The Question of Freedom in Foucault and La Boétie, «Soft-power» 2 (2015), n. 1: http://www.softpowerjournal.com/web/?p=789