Philosophy of the Body and Corporeality

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Seminar: presentation of major conceptual networks; reading, analysis, and discussion of selected texts. 

Learning Outcomes

The discipline’s main objective is to present and discuss some of the key aspects of contemporary discourses on the body in light of the major philosophical questions on the body and on corporality.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 - Introduction to a philosophy of the body.

2 - History(ies) of the body in continental philosophical tradition.

3 - Phenomenology of incarnate living.

4 - Places of the body.

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís António Ferreira Correia Umbelino

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 25.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

- ANDRIEU, B., A Nova Filosofia do Corpo, trad. port. Piaget, 2004.

- ANDRIEU, B., Philosophie du corps, Vrin, Paris, 2010.

- RICHIR, M., Le corps. Essai sur l’intériorité, Hatier, Paris, 1993.

- VINCENT, G., (dir.) Le corps, le sensible et le sens, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 2004.

- GODARD, J.-Ch., (dir.) Le corps, Vrin, Paris, 2005.

- MERLEAU-PONTY, M., Phénoménologie de la perception, Gallimard, Paris, 1945 (Trad. Port. Fenomenologia da Percepção, Martins Fontes, São Paulo.