Communication and Democracy
Code
722011109
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
António Horta Fernandes
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To engage the learners on a reflexion about the political universe, particularly on the questions of citizenship and political contents communication, with, as surveyor, otherness as an ethic figure.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Politics and democracy: conceptual exercise;
2. Power and sovereignty: reflexes on what is the law;
3. The centrality of the otherness on communication, politics and the building of justice;
4. Truth and lies on politics : ethics and communication;
5. Information and secret on the exercise of justice: ethics and citizenship;
6. Justice, theories of justice and politics of justice;
7. Towards an anamnetic politics ;
8. The forgiveness in law;
9. The forgiveness in politics;
Bibliography
HABERMAS, Jürgen , Teoría de la Acción Comunicativa, Madrid, Taurus, 1987
REYES MATE, Manuel , Medianoche en la Historia, Madrid, Trotta, 2006
AGAMBEN, Giorgio , O Poder Soberano e a Vida Nua, Lisboa, Presença, 1998
FERNANDES, António Horta , Soberania, Relações Internacionais, 24, Lisboa, Dezembro de 2009, pp.135-153.
Teaching method
Classical magistral display followed by the debate of the theme in analysis, often with the discussion of texts previously released to the learners
Evaluation method
Written paper.