Intellectuals, Popular Culture, Collective Identities: Italy and Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

The course aims to present the methodology of intellectual and cultural history through an investigation of the main theories and historiographical debates. It provides the theoretical tools with which to analyse the intellectual and cultural history of Italy and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Employ a wide variety of written and visual sources as well as secondary readings on the intellectual and cultural history of Italy;
- Employ different methodologies of historical analysis and research;
- Read critically primary and secondary sources relevant to the formation of contemporary Italian identity from an intellectual and cultural point of view.