HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
Academic Year 2020/2021 - 2° Year - Curriculum Agenzie formative, servizi educativi, insegnamento and Curriculum Educazione ambientale e territorio, insegnamentoLearning Objectives
To Understand and critically investigate the development of contemporary philosophy in the XIX and XX centuries through the most representative philosophers.
- To be able to have a critical look at the doctrines of the philosophers within an historical framework.
- To be able to argue on their thinking, using appropriate logical and linguistic tools.
Course Structure
Lectures (methodological strategy used: Active learning), Group work, Exercises on the philosophical text.
Detailed Course Content
The following matters will be examined: Mind, Knowledge, Language, Science, Morality, Politics, Law, Metaphysics, the re-enactment of the History of Philosophy.
In addition, the following thinkers will be dealt with through their biographical and philosophical development: Post-Hegelian Schools, Schopehauer, Marx, Husserl, Heidegger (in particular: investigation about the concept of "Zeit"), Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, Russell, The Vienna and Berlin Circles, Popper.
Textbook Information
Section A: G. Cambiano, M. Mori, Storia della filosofia contemporanea, Laterza, Bari 2014. Section B: M. Heidegger, Il concetto di tempo (1924), Adelphi, Milano 1998.