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.

he 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 history of philosophy is assumed.

Nietzsche and the Hermeneutics.

"The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche", Stanford University Press (selected parts).
Friedrich Nietzsche, Kritische Studienausgabe, hrsg. von Colli und Montinari, de Gruyter, Berlin 1988 (selected parts).

Method of evaluation: oral and written examination based on problems considered during the course:
- one seven-page essay.
- class participation (including presentation).
- final examination.

Conventional. Yet, provided the number of students is not so high, the ordinary class teaching will be integrated with seminar-like moments, in which students will be asked to give short papers.

Italian

Not attending students will have to contact the teacher, before preparing the examination.

Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion
Ca' Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.

written and oral