PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS (ADVANCED COURSE)

The teaching of Philosophical Hermeneutics is a theoretical discipline and was born when Martin Heidegger, in the first half of the twentieth century, recognized full philosophical dignity to issues and phenomena that are part of the earlier hermeneutic-exegetical tradition. It is one of the pillars of contemporary philosophical studies.

The hermeneutic-philosophical approach aims at at least two objectives:
(1) learning to read a classical text with due historiographical awareness and the necessary critical sense for the multiplicity of meanings;
(2) to open students' cultural horizon so as to defer absolutization of the present and not remain hostage to dominant interpretations.

Good familiarity with the thought of Descartes, Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger

The course will focus on Martin Heidegger’s criticism during the period of Being and Time against Descartes’ philosophical ideal and against the project outlined by Husserl in the essay “Philosophy as a Rigorous Science.” In this broad topic, special emphasis will be given to the theme of the relation between world and subject and how Heidegger sought to go beyond the world-concepts developed by Descartes and Husserl respectively, criticizing the centrality that these thinkers attach to the problematic of the foundation of knowledge.

Heidegger, M. Essere e Tempo, (una qualunque edizione italiana)
Heidegger, M. Introduzione all‘indagine fenomenologica, Bompiani, Milano 2018
Husserl, E. La filosofia come scienza rigorosa, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005

Further readings)

Biemel W. Le concept de monde chez Heidegger, Vrin, Parigi 2005.
Costa V. Husserl, Carocci, Roma 2009
Costa V. Franzini E., Spinicci P. , La fenomenologia, Einaudi, Torino 2002
Dastur, F. Le concept de monde chez Heidegger après Être et Temps, Alter, 6/1998
Franzini E. Fenomenologia: introduzione tematica al pensiero di Husserl, Franco Angeli, Milano 1999
Franck, D. Heidegger e le problème de l’espace, les éditions de minuit, Parigi 1986.
Galanti Grollo, S. Esistenza e mondo. L’ermeneutica della fatticità in Heidegger (1919- 1927), il Poligrafo, Padova 2002
Held, K. La fenomenologia del mondo e i greci, Guerini e Associati, Milano 1995
Husserl E, & Heidegger M. Fenomenologia, Edizioni Unicopli, Milano 1999.
Vattimo, G. Heidegger, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2001.
Volpi, F. La trasformazione della fenomenologia da Husserl a Heidegger, Teoria, 4/1984
Volpi, F. (ed.) Guida a Heidegger, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008.

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

The course includes 6 hours of weekly lessons.

Italian

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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.

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