Summer 2014 Philosophy of Italian Culture Paper Topics

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1. please discuss the role of the intellectual as an observer of and agent in culture. Please consider the readings of Mazzini, Gramsci, Fo.
2. please give a "thick description" of the Piazza Fontana 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-Pia di Bella, and Geertz.