85027 - History of Philosophical Culture (1)

Learning outcomes

The course intends to provide useful conceptual tools and specific methodological knowledge for the analysis of significant traditions, texts and figures in the historical and philosophical context and in the history of Western culture.

Course contents

The destiny of modernity

Schmitt, Löwith and Blumenberg on secularization 

 

The course focuses on the philosophical debate in 20th century German philosophy about the problem of the origin of modernity, with regard to the political-theoretical aspects of the concept of secularization.

Particular attention will be paid to Schmitt's political theology, Löwith's idea of the philosophy of history, Blumenberg's concept of reoccupation.

The different theoretical perspectives of the authors will be analyzed with reference to the historical and cultural context.

 

Starting date: 21th September 2020

 

Monday 15:00 - 17:00, classroom A (via Centotrecento)

Tuesday 15:00–17:00, classroom A (via Centotrecento)

Wednesday 15:00–17:00, classroom A (via Centotrecento)

 

In the first two weeks (21.-30. september 2020) lectures will be held online

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

1. Primary readings:

• Selected Parts of these Texts *:
  

1.1 Carl Schmitt, Le categorie del "politico", il Mulino, Bologna 1972

1.2 Carl Schmitt, Teologia politica II, Giuffrè, Milano 1992

1.3 Karl Löwith, Significato e fine della storia: i presupposti teologici della filosofia della storia, il Saggiatore, Milano 1963

1.4 Karl Löwith, Marx, Weber, Schmitt, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1994

1.5 Hans Blumenberg, La legittimità dell'età moderna, Marietti, Genova 1992

1.6 Hans Blumenberg - Carl Schmitt, L'enigma della modernità. Epistolario 1971-1978 e altri scritti, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012

 

  * See Teaching Resources

 

2. Critical readings (4 Texts of your choice):

 

2.1 One Text of your choice:

Hermann Lübbe, La secolarizzazione. Storia e analisi di un concetto, il Mulino, Bologna 1970

Sabino Acquaviva, Gustavo Guizzardi (a cura di), La secolarizzazione, il Mulino, Bologna 1973

Giacomo Marramao, Cielo e terra. Genealogia della secolarizzazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1994

Michaël Foessel, Jean-François Kervegan, Myriam Revault d'Allonnes (a cura di), Modernité et sécularisation: Hans Blumenberg, Karl Löwith, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, PUF, Paris 2007

 

2.2 One Text of your choice:

Carlo Galli, Genealogia della politica. Carl Schmitt e la crisi del pensiero moderno, il Mulino, Bologna 1996

Id., Il volto di Giano. Saggi su Carl Schmitt, il Mulino, Bologna 2008

Heinrich Meier, La lezione di Carl Schmitt, Cantagalli, Siena 2014

Michele Nicoletti, Trascendenza e potere. La teologia politica di Carl Schmitt, Morcelliana, Brescia 1990

 

2.3 One Text of your choice:

Alberto Caracciolo, Karl Löwith, Morcelliana, Brescia 1997

Orlando Franceschelli, Karl Löwith. Le sfide della modernità tra Dio e nulla, Donzelli, Roma 1997

Wiebrecht Ries, Karl Löwith, Metzler, Stuttgart 1992

 

2.4 One Text of your choice:

Barnaba Maj (a cura di), Hans Blumenberg e la teoria della modernità, Quodlibet, Macerata 2001

Andrea Borsari (a cura di), Hans Blumenberg: mito, metafora, modernità, il Mulino, Bologna 1999

Franz Josef Wetz, Hans Blumenberg zur Einführung, Junius, Hamburg 1993

Nicola Zambon, Das Nachleuchten der Sterne. Konstellationen der Moderne bei Hans Blumenberg, Fink, Muenchen 2017

 

The programme is the same both for attending and not attending students.

 

 

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons with discussions in class of the most crucial issues

 

Assessment methods

The final oral exam focuses on the programme’s material and will be held in the Professor’s office: 5.06 - Via Zamboni, 38.

The critical evaluation considers the fundamental notions, the level of the analysis and the critical skills.

On the basis of these three principal parameters an overall evaluation in thirtieths is expressed.

 

Evaluation:

18-21 Low/Sufficient level

22-25 Medium level

26-28 Good/very good level

29-30 High level

30 L Excellent level

Teaching tools

Traditional lectures with support of Power Point

 

Office hours

See the website of Gennaro Imbriano