- Docente: Alberto Burgio
- Credits: 6
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Philosophical Sciences (cod. 8773)
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from Jan 29, 2024 to Apr 08, 2024
Learning outcomes
The Philosophy Seminars have the specific educational objectives of seminar teaching: (1) to train students in philosophical argumentation by soliciting discussions on themes and texts, even in the original language, presented in meetings with Italian and foreign scholars; (2) broaden and deepen philosophical knowledge through participation in conferences held by specialists from various fields of philosophical knowledge; (3) compare the different methodological approaches to philosophy as a complement to curricular teaching.
Course contents
Universal / Particular
The seminar will take place in the third period (second semester).
It will consist of presentations and discussions of philosophical essays that are ideally linked by reference to the universal/particular polarity.
A large bibliography of texts by leading authors in the contemporary panorama or by classics of the modern and contemporary philosophy will be presented and discussed first. The texts to be examined and presented at subsequent meetings will then be assigned to members, on the basis of a calendar to be agreed collectively.
The main purposes of the seminar work consist, on the one hand, in verifying the aptitude of the individual participants to offer relevant summaries of complex texts and, on the other, in ensuring that the entire group of members actively engage in the interpretation and in the critical confrontation.
The seminar calendar will be published in the section News of this web page.
Readings/Bibliography
Given that the bibliography will also be defined on the basis of the number of subscribers and in the light of the discussion that the seminar will lead in the first meeting, a list of works likely to be the subject of individual and group work is provided below (by way of example):
Andrew B. Schoedinger (ed.), The Problem of Universals, Humanities Press, New Jersey-London 1992
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discorso sull'origine e i fondamenti della disuguaglianza tra gli uomini (1755), Feltrinelli, Milano 2014
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Il contratto sociale (1762), Feltrinelli, Milano 2014
Immanuel Kant, Fondazione della metafisica dei costumi (1785), Laterza, Roma-Bari 1997
G.W. Friedrich Hegel, Lezioni sulla filosofia della storia (1827-30), Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010
Ferdinand Tönnies, Comunità e società (1887), Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011
Walter Benjamin, Sul concetto di storia (1940), a cura di G. Bonola e M. Ranchetti, Einaudi, Torino 1997
Jean-Paul Sartre, L'antisemitismo: riflessioni sulla questione ebraica (1946), SE, Milano 2015
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Le avventure della dialettica (1955), Mimesis, Milano 2009
Carla Lonzi, Sputiamo su Hegel (1970), La Tartaruga, Milano 2023
Karl-Otto Apel, Comunità e comunicazione (1973), Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 1977
Christopher Lasch, Rifugio in un mondo senza cuore. La famiglia in stato d’assedio (1977), Bompiani, Milano 1995
Edward W. Said, Orientalismo. L'immagine europea dell'Oriente (1978), Feltrinelli, Milano 2013
Alasdair MacIntyre, Dopo la virtù. Saggio di teoria morale (1981), Armando, Roma 2007
Michael Sandel, Il liberalismo e i limiti della giustizia (1982), Feltrinelli, Milano 1994
Thomas Nagel, Uno sguardo da nessun luogo (1986), Il Saggiatore, Milano 1988
Karl-Otto Apel, Etica della comunicazione (1988), Jaca Book, Milano 1992
Karl-Otto Apel, Discorso, verità, responsabilità (1989), Guerini, Milano 1997
Gilbert Simondon, L’individuazione psichica e collettiva (1989), DeriveApprodi, Roma 2001
Charles Taylor, Radici dell'io (1989), Feltrinelli, Milano 1993
Serge Latouche, L'occidentalizzazione del mondo (1989), Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1992
John Rawls, Liberalismo politico (1993), Einaudi, Torino 2012
Michael Walzer, Geografia della morale. Democrazia, tradizioni e universalismo (1994), Dedalo, Bari 1999
Serge Latouche, Il pianeta uniforme. Significato, portata e limiti dell'occidentalizzazione del mondo, Paravia/Scriptorium, Torino 1997
Jürgen Habermas, Morale diritto politica, Ed. Comunità, Torino 2001
Serge Latouche, La fine del sogno occidentale. Saggio sull'americanizzazione del mondo (2000), Eleuthera, Milano 2002
Serge Latouche, Il ritorno dell'etnocentrismo, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2003
Immanuel Wallerstein, La retorica del potere. Critica dell'universalismo europeo (2006), Fazi, Roma 2007
Ronald Dworkin, Giustizia per i ricci (2011), Feltrinelli, Milano 2013
Ernesto Laclau, Emancipazione/i, Orthotes, Nocera Inferiore 2012 (di questo libro un estratto è disponibile online alla pagina: https://www.orthotes.com/universalismo-particolarismo/)
Rino Genovese, Un illuminismo autocritico. La tribù occidentale e il caos planetario, Rosenberg & Sellier, Torino 2013
Alberto Burgio, Critica della ragione razzista, DeriveApprodi, Roma 2020
Teaching methods
The seminar will provide ample opportunities for discussion and comparison at the end of the speech offered by the individual speakers.
Assessment methods
The suitability of attending students will be ascertained on the basis of the quality of the interventions carried out in the course of individual and group work.
Students with disabilities and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)Students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders have the right to special accommodations according to their condition, following an assessment by the Service for Students with Disabilities and SLD. Please do not contact the teacher but get in touch with the Service directly to schedule an appointment. It will be the responsibility of the Service to determine the appropriate adaptations. For more information, visit the page:
https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students
Teaching tools
Texts and any materials produced by the speakers.
Office hours
See the website of Alberto Burgio
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.