Literature, Media and Philosophy: Interdisciplinary and Contemporary Issues

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical expositions supported by PowerPoint. Discussion of texts and papers presentation by students.

Learning Outcomes

1. Mastering the notions: strange, foreigner, alterity, feminism and women writing, dialogue of cultures and religions from the point of view of texts by French and Maghreb writers im the 20th and 21st centuries.

2. Ability to discuss the different theoretical perspectives in Globalization and the role of the media in this process. With this main purpose, it is presented: a. The main historical perspectives about Globalization; b. Theories and concepts framig Globalization; 3. The media as tools and vehicules of Globalization; d. The media as dominating and/or emancipatory symbols in the Globalization process.The seminar offers theoretical knowledge and concepts which allow students to critically interpret the phenomena of Globalization and the role of the media at a local, regional and global level.

3. Mastery of essential concepts about contemporary art in what regards the body, the place and perfomance.        

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Mod. I

1. The stranger and the foreigner: Camus, Daoud and Meursault

2. The woman and the writing: Duras, Fellous and Djebar

3. The religion and the other: Houellebecq

Mod. II

1. From Mundialization to Globalization

a. Great Trips and "Discoveries"

b. Technological and political supremacy of Europe

c. Communication tools

2. Theories and Concepts of the Globalization

a.  Cosmopolitism and Western hegemony

b. Identities and nationalisms

c. The world is a global "village"

3. Is another globalization possible?

Mod. III

Contemporary Art

1. The contemporary in the contemporary art: legitimacy, criteria, limits

2. Working the body; the performance; the perceptive body; the absent bodies; the monsters; the cyborg

3. The space of the art work and the space as art: specific place; landscapes, ruins and spaces of horror.

Head Lecturer(s)

Diogo Falcão Ferrer

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

I

BOURDIEU 1998. La domination masculine. Paris [=Pr]].

CHEBEL 2015. L’inconscient de l’Islam. Pr.

LEBBAR 2014. Femmes et religions. Casablanca.

SAID 2014. Des intellectuels et du pouvoir. Casablanca.

TODOROV 2008. La peur des barbares. Pr.

II

CASTELLS 1996/2000.The Information Age, Vols. 1, 3. Oxford.  

DAVIS/FERIN-CUNHA et al. 2016. The Construction of a Transnational Lusophone Media Space. The Intern. Journal of Media and Culture, 14 (2016), 4.

HAFEZ 2007. The Myth of Media Globalization. Cambridge. 

HERMANN/MCCHESNEY 1997. The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Global Capitalism. London.

MATTELART 1994.  L’Invention de la communication. Pr.

III

JONES 2006. A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945, London.

KIVY 2004 (org.). The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, London.

MERLEAU-PONTY 1948, “Le doute de Cézanne”, in Caderno de Filosofias, A.P.F. (1994), pp.7-33.

MALPAS 2004. Place and Experience, Cambridge.