Contemporary Philosophy
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2024-2025
01013357
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
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)
NoSyllabus
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.
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.