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HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY I

[Italiano] AF: 112462 AR: 53993
Official course title STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA CONTEMPORANEA I
Academic Year 2010/2011
Course code FT0210
University credits 6
Degree level First Cycle Degree M.D.270
Educational sector code M-FIL/06
Semester/trimester 3° Periodo
Where VENEZIA

Professor

Degree Programmes and curricula

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Contents

Educational Goals

Knowledge of contemporary philosophy

Requirements

Knowledge of History of Philosophy

Contents

1) History of contemporary philosophy. Part I: from the crisis of the idealistic system to herme-neutics.
- Post-Hegelian philosophy: the late Schelling, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard, Hegelian Left;
- Friedrich Nietzsche;
- Neo-Kantianism and Historism: from Dilthey to Weber;
- Phenomenology and Hermeneutics: Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Derrida.

2) Reading of a text from the contemporary Philosophy:
- M. Heidegger, Being and Time (1927).

Recommended Reading List

Texts for the examination:
- L. Cortella, Dal soggetto al linguaggio. Un percorso nella filosofia contemporanea (text of the course of lectures), VIII. Edizione, Libreria Editrice Cafoscarina, Venezia 2010 (chapters 1-2-3-4).
- M. Heidegger, Essere e tempo, Longanesi.

Non-attenders must integrate their study with:
- A. Fabris, Essere e tempo di Heidegger. Introduzione alla lettura, Carocci.

Optional reading:
- F.W. von Herrmann, Hermeneutische Phänomenologie des Daseins. Eine Einführung von “Sein und Zeit”, Klostermann.

Assessment

Oral examination

Teaching Methods

Lecture

Teaching Language

Italian

Other information

There can be no “agreement” on alternative exam programs.

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Last update: 02/03/2011