INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT II

The teaching is part of the training course of the Master's Degree in Philosophy. The training objectives are intended to provide the student with the tools for a critical understanding of the major texts of contemporary philosophy and a specific language appropriate to the topics dealt with. In the end, the student must be able to independently and critically manage a complex text of philosophy.

The course aims to provide a series of specific knowledge about contemporary philosophical thought. The student will have to acquire the skills, competences and knowledge useful for the critical comprehension and textual analysis of the major authors of contemporary philosophy, through the acquisition of a specific linguistic terminology, demonstrating to have developed communication skills and learning abilities.

Knoweledge general lines of history of contemporary philosophy

Through the voice of authors such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Juenger, Schmitt, the course intends to analyze the theme of the West and nihilism.

F. Nietzsche, Genealogia della morale, Adelphi, Milano 1984.
Id., Così parlò Zarathustra, Adelphi, Milano 1976.
Id., Il nichilismo europeo, Adelphi, Milano 2006.
J. Derrida, Otobiographies, il poligrafo, Padova 1993.
G. Deleuze, Nietzsche e la filosofia, Einaudi, Torino 2002.
M. Heidegger, Nietzsche, Adelphi, Milano 1994.
Id., Chi è lo Zarathustra di Nietzsche, in Id., Saggi e discorsi, Mursia, Milano 1976.
Id., La sentenza di Nietzsche "Dio è morto", in Id., Sentieri interrotti, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1968.
E. Juenger, M. Heidegger, Oltre la linea, Adelphi, Milano 1989.
E. Jueger, C. Schmitt, Il nodo di Gordio, il Mulino, Bologna 1987.
J. Taubes, In divergente accordo, Quodlibet, Macerata 1996.
M. Cacciari, Il potere che frena, Adelphi, Milano 2013.
J. Paul, Scritti sul nichilismo, Morcelliana, Brescia 1997.

Tehe exam place in oral form

Frontal lesson which makes use of seminar support.

Italian

The professor receives tuesday at 11 am in the office.

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