After the historical defeat of Marxism during the 20th century it cannot be said that the flourishing season of attempts to criticize capitalism ended. Economic crises, pandemics, terrorist resurgences, war conflicts in the renewed geopolitical framework, increasingly macroscopic migratory phenomena, have revived the topic and fueled further attempts - even authoritative ones - to seek a credible economic alternative also on a political level. An observation must be made: these attempts have also proven to be rather insufficient on a historical and political level; culturally (and not only) speaking we are witnessing a globalization which, indeed, does nothing but magnify those factors in their pathological and destabilizing connotations. In these first decades of the new millennium, however, there is an emerging attempt to reconsider - on the part of various authoritative scholars - a tradition of thought that has so far remained untraceable for centuries. Its synthetic formulation is “Civil Economy”. The course intends to shed light on the sources, developments, institutional themes, meanings and figures of this repertoire of thought in order to rethink its contributions today in relation to possible changes, corrective measures, innovations and constructive and critical orientations regarding the new/ ancient capitalism; an economic-philosophical work that is difficult to delay today.