73072 - History of Contemporary French Philosophy (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

French Contemporary Philosophy is one of the most important, from a theoretical point of view, but also as a key to debates in a wide range of human sciences, as linguistics, sociology, political philosophy, feminism, gender studies. It is a kind of philosophy which is very diffused also in Anglosaxon countries, especially in USA. The aim of the course will be to give the student means of orientation in various contemporary philosophical debates and in a complex of disciplinary fields closely connected with them.

Course contents

The crisis of globalisation, the ecological question and the concept of history.

The crisis of liberist globalisation and the ecological crisis impose to rethink deeply the concept of nature and the concept of history.

Introduction: Why a course on history? History, the end of history and the Western tradition in Ernesto De Martino, Merleau-Ponty and Auerbach; Lyotard and Fukuyama. The Sixties and the crisis of linear history; the last twenty years and the crisis of postmodernism (6 hours). Dipesh Chakrabarty: The Climate of History and Provincializing Europe; (6 hours); Nihilism and the conception of history: Lyotard, Flaubert, Schopenhauer, Tolstoj (10 hours); History, Fragment and the Western tradition: Eric Auerbach (6 hours). Conclusions (2 hours).

 

All the texts will be found in digital format on Virtuale, with the exception of the following book: M. Iofrida, Per un paradigma del corpo: una rifondazione filosofica dell'ecologia, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2019, whose reading is obligatory. It may be very useful also the reading of the following book: Paolo Missiroli, Teoria critica dell’Antropocene. Vivere dopo la Terra, vivere nella Terra, Mimesis, Milano, 2022.The final examination consists of a discussion of an essay, whose argument must be arranged with the professor.Hours and room: Third Period, Monday Tuesday Wednesday 17-19 Room C Via Zamboni 34. The course will start on January 31, 2023.

FOR STUDENTS WHO CANNOT FOLLOW THE LESSONS: A program must be agreed with the professor.

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 master students in this arguments.
The final mark results from an oral examination, preceded by a written essay, to which a special importance is conferred: to each student a personalized argument will be attributed, conform to his cultural profile and to the didactic and scientific necessities inherent to it.

Teaching tools

Seminars and composition of papers attaining to the course program.

Office hours

See the website of Manlio Iofrida