Contemporary Philosophy

Year
0
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
01013357
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes, involving the mandatory reading of at least one work by each of the philosophers studied.

Teaching and learning include theoretical presentations on the main topics and discussion based on texts by the philosophers studied.

Learning Outcomes

Students are expected to develop an understanding of the authors and philosophical issues addressed, as well as research/reading skills and the ability to think (which is always “critical”) and to present their ideas orally and in writing. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Introduction

1. The problematics of teaching the history of philosophy: Thought / Philosophy and History of Philosophy

2. Chronological and theoretical definition of contemporary philosophy.

3. Distinguishing features of contemporary philosophy.

4. Chief currents in contemporary philosophy

 

II. Contemporary philosophy from S. Kierkegaard to Jacques Derrida

I. Critics of modernity

1. S. Kierkegaard

2. F. Nietzsche

3. S. Freud

 

III. The philosophers of existence

1. E. Husserl

2. M. Heidegger

 

IV. The philosophers of alterity

1. E. Levinas

2. J. Derrida.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Fernanda Bernardo Alves

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Mini Tests: 30.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Heidegger, Martin, Carta sobre o humanismo, tr. A. Stein

Heidegger, Sein und Zeit,

M. Heidegger,Qu'appelle-t-on penser?

E. Husserl, Meditações Cartesianas

E. Husserl, L’idée de la phénoménologie

S. Kierkegaard, Temor e Tremor

F. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

F. Nietzsche, Assim falava Zaratustra

S.Freud, «La afliccion y la melancolia» e «El "yo" y el "ello"» in Obras Completas, I

J. Derrida, La philosophie du point de vue cosmopolitique

J. Derrida, De la Grammatologie

J.Derrida, Dar a Morte

J.Derrida, Carneiros. O diálogo ininterrupto, entre dois infinitos: o poema

Lévinas, Emmanuel,Totalité et Infini

E. Lévinas, Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essense

G. Agamben, Qu'est-ce que le contemporain?

A bibliografia secundária irá sendo indicada no decurso das aulas.