PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS (ADVANCED COURSE)

The teaching of Philosophical Hermeneutics is a theoretical discipline and arises when Martin Heidegger, in the first half of the twentieth century, recognizes full philosophical dignity to the issues and phenomena that are part of the previous hermeneutical tradition. It is one of the pillars of contemporary philosophical studies.

The hermeneutical-philosophical approach aims at two main objectives:
(1) learn to read a classic text with the necessary historiographic awareness and the necessary critical sense of the multiplicity of meanings;
(2) open up the students' cultural horizon in order for them to learn how not to absolutize the present and not to take dominant interpretations as the only possible ones.

As the course will have a specialized tenor, an already consolidated knowledge of Heideggerian thought is assumed.

The "Contributions (Beiträge) to philosophy" by Martin Heidegger: Event, Beginning, Possibility, the last God.

Considered by many scholars, first of all by Pöggeler and Von Hermann, the Heideggerian "true great work" after "Being and Time", the "Contributions to philosophy" document a turning point (Kehre) that does not say 'no' either to the moves of the Twenties, or to the history of metaphysics. The course aims to bring out the experience of Being (of the beings) as a beginning that opens up possibilities in the seeming saturation of actuality.

1. Martin Heidegger, "Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)", translated by R. Rojcewicz and Daniela Vallega-Neu, Indiana Press, 2012;

2. Choose four essays among the following:

David Crownfield, The Last God, in "Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, pp. 213-228;
Françoise Dastur, Le tournant de l’Ereignis et la pensée à venir, in A. Schnell, "Lire les Beiträge zur Philosophie de Heidegger", Hermann Editeurs, Paris 2017, pp. 141-158;
George Kovacs, The Impact of Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie on Understanding his Lifework, in «Heidegger Studies», 27, 2011, pp. 155-176;
Kenneth Maly, Turnings in Essential Swaying and the Leap, in "Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, pp. 150-170;
William McNeill, The Time of Contribution to Philosophy, in "Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, pp. 129-149;
John Sallis, The Grounders of the Abyss, in "Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, pp. 181-197;
Leonardo Samonà, La “svolta” e i “Contributi della filosofia”: l’essere come evento, in F. Volpi (ed.), "Guida a Heidegger", Laterza, Roma-Bari 1997, pp. 159-198 [in BAUM];
Frank Schalow, The Impact of Contributions to Philosophy: Liberating Ontology and its Critical Implications for the Reductionistic Interpretations of Heidegger's Thought, in «Heidegger Studies», 25, 2009, pp. 25-47;
Alejandro Vallega, “Beyng-Historical Thinking” in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy, in "Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, pp. 48-65;
Vincenzo Vitiello (ed.), I Beiträge zur Philosophie, in «aut aut», n. 248-9, 1992 [in BAUM]: (A) Massimo De Carolis, La possibilità della decisione nei ‘Beiträge’, pp. 173-186; (B) Otto Pöggeler, L’evento della svolta, pp. 17-37; (C) Mario Ruggenini, La questione dell’essere e il senso della ‘Kehre’, pp. 93-119; (D) Vincenzo Vitiello, Seyn als Wesung: Heidegger e il nichilismo, pp. 75-92;
Friedrich-Wilhelm Von Hermann, Contributions to Philosophy and Enowning-Historical Thinking, in "Companion to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2001, pp. 105-126.

3. Only for not attending students:
Sebastiano Galanti Grollo, "Heidegger e il problema dell’altro", Mimesis, Milano-Udine 2006.

The exam consists of a written test with open questions. In the maximum time of two hours students are asked to illustrate and comment on some (four or five) passages taken from the texts in the program.

The lectures will leave room for a seminar course, with direct reading of the texts and programmed reports by the students.

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