INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT I

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.

General lines of the history of contemporary philosophy.

The course deals with the problem of language and otherness mainly in Martin Heidegger and Jaques Derrida. The problem of language opens the way to the problem of identity and belonging, particularly felt in this current affair; while the problem of otherness, connected to that of language, brings into play the fundamental concept of difference.
In this way we intend to provide the student with a synthetic and problematic framework of two issues that involve not only philosophical culture but contemporary life.

M. Heidegger, In cammino verso il linguaggio, Mursia, Milano 1978.
Id., Conferenze di Brema e Friburgo, Adelphi, Milano 2002.
Id., Linguaggio e terra natia, in "aut aut", 235, gennaio-febbraio, 1990.
J. Derrida, Psiché. Invenzioni dell'altro, Jaca Book, Milano 2008.
Id., Abramo, l'altro, Cronopio, Napoli 2005.
Jd., Margini. Della filosofia, Einaudi, Torino 1997.
H. Arendt, Che cosa resta? resta la lingua, in Id., Antologia, Feltrinelli, Milano 2006.
H. Melville, Bartleby lo scrivano, Feltrinelli, Milano 1991.
G. Deleuze, G. Agamben, Bartleby. La formula della creazione, Quodlibet, Macerata 2006.
R. Esposito, Terza persona, Einaudi, Torino 2007.
M. Blanchot, La comunità inconfessabile, SE, Milano 2002.

The exam takes place in oral form. During the interview the student must demonstrate ability to reconstruct the topics treated and good knowledge of secondary literature.

Frontal lesson which makes use of seminar support and materials available on the University e-learning platform.

Italian

The professor receives tuesday at 11am in the office.

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