- Docente: Manlio Iofrida
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 9216)
Learning outcomes
An introduction in the main themes of contemporary philosophical and political debate; a guide to critical discussion and to self-orientation in the ethical and political problems of contemporaneity.
Course contents
Body, nature and ecology in Merleau-Ponty and Foucault
Program for attending students
It is an introduction to the question of ecology via some basic philosophical concepts of Merleau-Ponty and Foucault. A selection of the main texts of these philosophers, concerning the ecological question, will be presented: after a general introduction (4 hours), a detailed commentary of passages from Merleau-Ponty's Conversations and Foucault's History of Madness (10 hours), from Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of perception and Foucault's Discipline and Punish (6 hours), from Canguilhem's works and other later works by Foucault (10 hours) will be made. All these texts will be found in photocopies in Copyshop Centotrecento, via Centotrecento. Obligatory text: M. Iofrida, Per un paradigma del corpo: una rifondazione filosofica dell'ecologia, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2019 (in corso di stampa); Suggested reading: M. Iofrida - D. Melegari, Michel Foucault, Carocci, Roma, 2017.
Hours and room: IV Period, Mon 17-9 AULA TIBILETTI - via Zamboni 38 Tue 15-17 (Aula IV) Wed 17-9 AULA TIBILETTI.
The lessons start on March 23 2020
Program for non attending students
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Conversazioni, Milano, SE, 2002.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Fenomenologia della percezione, Milano, Bompiani, any edition, down to the chapter “La sintesi del corpo proprio” included.
M. Iofrida, Per un paradigma del corpo: una rifondazione filosofica dell'ecologia, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2019 (in corso di stampa).
Readings/Bibliography
See the program.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons.
Assessment methods
the final examination is finalized to verify that didactic focuses have been realized, i. e. the capacity of the student to trace the mean philosophical streamings of French contemporary philosophy ; his knowledge of the basic historical-philosophical notions necessary to a first degree student in this arguments.
Evaluation criteria are listed and explained in the lecturer’s website.
Teaching tools
Seminars and composition of papers attaining to the course program.
Office hours
See the website of Manlio Iofrida