Political Philosophy: An Introduction

A MOOC held by Professor Furio Cerutti on the iversity platform

LIST OF THE AUTHORS/WORKS CITED IN PART

ONE OF THE COURSE ( LECTURES 1-3)
The year of the first edition or the year of writing (wr.) is indicated.
For authors: either year of the most relevant work(s) for political philosophy or years of birth/death.
The publisher is not indicated in case of classical works, of which several editions are available.

Part 1
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Le Allegorie del Buono e Cattivo Governo e dei loro Effetti (The
allegories of good and bad government and their effects), Siena, Palazzo pubblico
Thomas Aquinas (Tommaso d'Acquino), 1225-1274, Summa theologiae
Easton, David, The Political System, 1965
Madison, James et al., The Federalist, 1787-88 ("if men were angels", no. 51)
Heraklitus of Ephesus ( ), 535-475 BC
Weber, Max, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Economy and Society), 1922
(conflict/struggle/Kampf, part 1, vol.1, ch. 1, 8; the state's monopoly of force 17)
___, Politik als Beruf 1919 (Politics as a Vocation - "wer Politik treibt, erstrebt macht"
slide III, 3)
Pizzorno, Alessandro, Le radici della politica assoluta. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1993, 187-203
Foucault, Michel, Surveiller et punir (Discipline and Punish) 1975, La volont de savoir
(The Will to Knowledge)1976
Lukes, Steven, Power: A Radical View, 1974, 2nd ed. 2006.

Marx, Karl- Friedrich Engels, Die deutsche Ideologie (The German Ideology wr.1845-46, published 1932)
Gramsci, Antonio, Quaderni del carcere (Prison Notebooks - wr. 1929-35; first published
1948-51; critical ed. 1975)
Bobbio, Norberto, see Reference List, in particular Democracy and Dictatorship (the
chapter The state)
The main representatives of political realism:
Thucydides (, c. 460 c. 395 BC),

(The Pelopponesian War )

Niccol Machiavelli , Il principe (The Prince, comp.1513) + Discorsi sopra la prima

deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy, wr. approximately
1513-1521)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 1651
Carl Schmitt, Der Begriff des Politischen (The Concept of the Political, 1927)
Hans Morgenthau, Politics among Nations, 1948
Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State and War 1959 + Theory of International Politics 1979
The main representatives of political idealism/normativism:
Plato (), 428/427 348/347 BC, (The Republic) + (Laws)
Aristotle ( ), 384 322 BC, (Politics)
- in Raffaello's fresco in the Vatican La scuola d'Atene (The school of Athens) Plato and Aristotle
are portrayed together, the former pointing at the sky, the latter at the earth -

Augustine of Hippo, 354 430 AD, De Civitate Dei

Immanuel Kant, Zum ewigen Frieden (Perpetual Peace) 1795, Metaphysik der Sitten
(Metaphysics of Morals) 1797
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice 1971, Political Liberalism 1993, The Law of Peoples
1999.