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.

This module offers a detailed reading and discussion of Edmund Husserl’s work “The crisis of European sciences and transcendental phenomenology” in view of highlighting its significance for contemporary philosophy and culture

Husserl, E. La crisi delle scienze europee e la fenomenologia transcendentale, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2015.
Husserl, E, Meditazioni Cartesiane (una qualunque edizione italiana)

further readings

Bucci, P. La Crisi delle scienze europee di Husserl,Carocci, Roma 2013
Costa V. , Husserl, Carocci, Roma 2009
Costa V. , Franzini E., Spinicci P. , La fenomenologia, Einaudi, Torino 2002
Derrida, J. Introduzione a ‘Husserl l’origine della geometria’, Jaca Book, Milano 1987
Dodd J., Crisis and Reflection: an Essay on Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences, Kluwer, Dordrecht 2004
Forni G., Commento alla “Crisi” di Husserl, CLUEB, Bologna 1986
Franzini E. , Fenomenologia: introduzione tematica al pensiero di Husserl, Franco Angeli, Milano 1999.
Graf. R. (2010). Either-Or: The Narrative of “Crisis” in Weimar Germany and in Historiography. Central European History, 43(4), 592-615.
Gurwitsch, A. (1956). The Last Work of Edmund Husserl. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 16(4), 380-399.
Majolino C, & De Gandt F, (Ed.), Lectures de la Krisis de Husserl, Vrin, Parigi, 2008.
Moran, D. Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.
Orth E. W., Edmund Husserls “Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie” Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1999.
Paci E., Funzione delle scienze e significato dell'uomo, il Saggiatore, Milano 1964.
Signore M. (a cura di), Husserl. La “Crisi delle scienze europee” e la responsabilità storica dell'Europa, FrancoAngeli, Milano 1985.
Trincia F. S., Guida alla lettura della “Crisi delle scienze europee” di Husserl, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012.

Oral and written exam on the topic discussed during the module:

- A 2000-word essay;
- A final oral exam.

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