Summer 2014 Philosophy of Italian Culture Paper Topics

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Essay Questions

  1. please discuss the role of the intellectual as an on server of and agent in culture. Please consider the readings of Mazzini, Gramsci, Fo.
  2. please give a "thick description" of the piazza fint ants bombing and the Pinelli case. Please consider Geertz, Accidental death of an Anarchist, including the commentary, and Piazza Fontana: A story of a massacre.
  3. please discuss the function of honour and grace as means of establishing social status and, more specifically, within 19th-century Sicily. Please refer to Readings of Wilson, Maria-IPA di Bella, and Geertz.
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