- Docente: Francesco Cattaneo
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-FIL/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Learning outcomes
Students will learn the numerous and diversified historical identities that poetics and rhetorics have acquired, from ancient times to contemporary age. They will also learn how to read one of the classics within that framework.
Course contents
General title of the course: Linguistic Overturnings of
Metaphysics. Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Essence of
Language.
Title of the first part of the course (6 CFU): "Nietzsche and
Rhetorics as Unmasking of the Artificial Character of
Language". Title of the second part of the course (6 CFU):
"Heidegger and 'Logic' as Investigation of the Essence of
Language". The aim of the course is to study in depth the
issue of the essence of language by the means of a comparative
analysis of the philosophical positions of Plato, Nietzsche and
Heidegger. The course will start on the 5th of February 2014. Time
and place: Wednesday, 11-13 (Aula A, via Centotrecento 18);
Thursday, 15-17 (Aula A, via Zamboni 34); Friday, 11-13 (Aula A,
via Zamboni 34).
Readings/Bibliography
Main texts:
Platone, Cratilo, introduzione e note di Caterina Licciardi, trad. it. di Emidio Martini, Rizzoli, Milano 2006.
F. Nietzsche, Su verità e menzogna in senso
extramorale, a cura di F. Tomatis, Bompiani, Milano
2006.
M. Heidegger, Logica e linguaggio, trad. it. e c. di U. Ugazio, Christian Marinotti, Milano 2008.
Teaching methods
The two parts of the course (6 CFU each) consist of 30 hours, for a total of 60 hours.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Office hours
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