The philosophy of history focuses on the most relevant categories (freedom, progress, decadence, rationality) and on the philosophical background of the development of human civilization and historical periods.
Title of the course:
Boundaries and barriers: philosophy of space and theory of society
Classical texts:
I. Kant, Prolegomeni ad ogni metafisica futura (pagine scelte)
I. Kant, Critica della ragion pura (selected pages).
G. Simmel, Lo spazio e gli ordinamenti spaziali della società, in Id., Sociologia, tr. it. Milano, Comunità, 1989.
C. Schmitt, Il nomos della terra, Milano, Adelphi, 1991.
H. Arendt, La conquista dello spazio e la statura dell’uomo, in Id., Verità e politica, tr. it. Torino, Bollati Boringhieri.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge: acquisition of reading tools for classical philosophical texts in a context of
interdisciplinary attention; competence and skills: learning of a scientifically valid search method, which allows to also probing knowledge fields that are neighboring to the philosophical ones.
Prerequisites
Bachelor Degree, Basic Knowledge of the Philosophical Thought of the twentieth century.
Teaching Methods
Lectures; text exercises; preparation of written papers
Further information
The Course of Scienze filosofiche entitled "Boundaries and barriers: philosophy of space and theory of society" has been defined within a voluntary co-ordination of the educational syllabus between some teachers of the Degree in Scienze filosofiche. In the academic years 2017-18 and 2018-19 the courses of Philosophy of History (Bruno Accarino), Philosophy of Politics (Dimitri D'Andrea), Philosophical Anthropology (Ubaldo Fadini), History of Aesthetics (Gianluca Garelli), History of Philosophy (Laura Anna Macor), Social Philosophy (Elena Pulcini) will have as common theme "World, Earth, Globe".
The course will take place in the second part of the first semester, a. y. 2017/2018 and will begin on Monday, 06/11/2016
Schedule:
Monday 11-13 ;
Tuesday 11-13 ;
Thursday 11-13 .
Office hours : Monday and Thursday 9-11 .
Calendar (unless unexpected circumstances):
1 ) Monday, November 6
2 ) Tuesday, November 7
3 ) Thursday, November 9
4 ) Monday, November 13
5 ) Tuesday, November 14
6) Thursday, November 16
7 ) Monday, November 20
8 ) Tuesday, November 21
9 ) Thursday, November 23
10 ) Monday, November 27
11 ) Tuesday, November 28
12 ) Thursday, November 30
13 ) Monday, December 04
14 ) Tuesday, December 05
15 ) Thursday, December 07
16 ) Monday, December 11
17 ) Tuesday, December 12
18 ) Thursday, December 14
Type of Assessment
Written paper and/or oral examination.
Required skills:
a) knowledge of the texts;
b) ability to make connections between the various parts that make up the exam;
c) control of the philosophical lexicon
Course program
Title of the course:
Boundaries and barriers: philosophy of space and theory of society
The course aims to focus on the issues of boundaries both in terms of theory of knowledge (Kant) and from the point of view of a theory of society (inclusion/exclusion, globalization, networks etc.).
Letteratura critica:
E. Benveniste, Il vocabolario delle istituzioni indoeuropee, tr. it. Torino, Einaudi, 1976, i seguenti lemmi: L’ospitalità (pp. 64-75), philos (pp. 257-271), Lo schiavo, lo straniero (pp. 272-277).
J. Derrida, Sull’ospitalità, ed. it. Baldini&Castoldi.
G. Deleuze - F. Guattari, Trattato di nomadologia, in Id., Mille piani, ed. it. Castelvecchi.
C. Galli, Spazi politici, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2001.
B. Accarino (a cura di), Confini in disordine, ed. manifestolibri
F. Farinelli, L’invenzione della Terra, ed. Sellerio.