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Seminário de Filosofia Política I

Código 13029
Ano 1
Semestre S1
Créditos ECTS 15
Carga Horária OT(5H)/S(40H)
Área Científica Filosofia
Mode of delivery face-to-face.
Work placements none.
Learning outcomes General objective:
1. Demonstrate mastery of a thematic area of Political Philosophy, and of related key categories, from a research perspective. It is part of this objective to acquaint the Ph.D. student with recent research results.
Specific objectives:
2. To enable the doctoral candidate for in-depth philosophical reflection on the relationship between political philosophy and 'disenchantment' / sense(s) of the world;
3. To guide students in pertinent bibliography and train them for research in the area;
4. Enable the student to write a paper on a concrete question of political philosophy.
Syllabus - António Bento
1. Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and the art of writing
2. The methodology of the history of political concepts in Quentin Skinner
3. The concept of language and the métier d’historien in John Pocock
4. Begriffsgeschichte. The “history of concepts” in Reinhart Koselleck
5. Machiavelli and the appearance in politics
- Maria João Cabrita
1.Tragedy of the Commons (Hardin) versus common-pool resources (Ostrom).
Previous readings: Hardin and Ostrom
2.Enclosure of the commons.
Previous readings: Dardot, P. & Laval, C.; Federici, S.
3.Commons or common? (Federici versus Hardt & Negri).
Previous readings: Federici; Hardt & Negri;
4.The commons as constitutive social relations and practices, forms of coexistence that resist privatisation and the individualisation of life (Federici).
Previous readings: Federici.
5.The metropolis as a space of the common and of rebellion.
Previous readings: Hardt & Negri (2009).



Main Bibliography 1ª Parte do Semestre:
Koselleck, Reinhart, História de Conceitos. Estudos sobre a semântica e a pragmática da linguagem política e social, Contraponto Editora, 2021.
Pocock, John, Political Thought and History. Essays on Theory and Method, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Skinner, Quentin, Visions of Politics, I. Regarding Method, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Strauss, Leo, What is Political Philosophy?,The University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Strauss, Leo, Persecution and the Art of Writing,The University of Chicago Press, 1988.
2ª Parte do Semestre:
Dardot, P. & Laval, C. (2019). Common: On revolution in the 21st century. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Federici, S. (2019). Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons. Pm Press.
Linebaugh, P. (2009). The Magna Carta manifesto: Liberties and commons for all. Univ. of California Press.
Hardin, G. (1968). The tragedy of the commons. science, 162(3859), 1243-1248.
Hardt, M. & Negri, A. (2009). Commonwealth. Harvard U. P.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Data da última atualização: 2025-01-07
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