History of Contemporary Political Thought

The course aims to illustrate some currents of contemporary political thought, with particular reference to the period from the last decades of the Nineteenth Century to the threshold of our present. From juspositivism to nationalism, from the affirmation of universal suffrage and democracy to political elitism, from parliamentarism to socialism, from liberalism to democratic Catholicism, from federalism to neo-federalism, from totalitarianism to post-totalitarianism, from fascism to communism, without neglecting the historical evolution of the market economy: These currents of thought will be the object of a specific analysis on the doctrinal level. An analysis that ends in the decisive historical turn determined by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of ideologies.