THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

In the philosophical studies Theoretical Philosophy is as fundamental as the study of Physiology in Medicine. It aims to bring out the first elements of the essential issues of human thought, without limiting itself to an analytical decomposition or a historiographical survey. His critical and multi-perspectives syntheses - albeit nourished by the necessary philological and historical-cultural mediations - engage themselves directly and immediately with the weight and consequences of things to think about.

Learning to recognize the multiple meanings, stratifications and references of an important philosophical text.
Learning to focus more on the right questions than on the answers.
Learning to articulate discourses aiming at justifying your own claims to truth.
Learning to select reliable document bases.

Good acquaintance with modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant, and particularly with Descartes' thought

The course will focus on the problematic of the world in Edmund Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology. The lectures will offer a detailed reading and discussion of Edmund Husserl's work “Cartesian Meditations2 and parts of "The Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology". Care will be taken to emphasise the way in which Husserl sets out to overcome Descartes’ foundational attempt and, along with it, the entire metaphysics of subjectivity of the modern era. Special attention will be given to the phenomenological concepts of intersubjectivity and tlife-world and their significance for contemporary philosophy and culture.

Cartesio, Meditazioni Metafisiche (una qualunque edizione italiana)
Husserl, E, Meditazioni Cartesiane (In classe si lavorerà sull'edizione curata da Andrea Altobrando, Orthotes Editrice, Napoli-Salerno 2020)
Husserl, E. La crisi delle scienze europee e la fenomenologia trascendentale, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 2015.

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.
Lavigne J.-Fr. (Ed.) Les méditations cartésiennes de Husserl. Vrin, Parigi, 2008.
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.

- A final oral exam consisting in a critical discussion of the texts read, analyzed, and commented upon during the course

The course includes 6 hours of weekly lessons.

Italian

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