CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT

Academic year
2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
PENSIERO FILOSOFICO CONTEMPORANEO
Course code
FM0579 (AF:512437 AR:290495)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Educational sector code
M-FIL/06
Period
4th Term
Course year
1
The course is part of the curriculum of the Master's Degree Course in Philosophical Sciences. The course sets out to explore the intellectual cartography of contemporary thought, not limiting itself to the questions posed by the continuity of the problems and themes of the philosophical canon - the more properly historical level -, but emphasising the discontinuity around which the very concept of 'contemporaneity' in culture, symbolic forms and social production grows.
1. To know the history of contemporary philosophy in its fundamental themes, problems and figures;
2. Recognise the essential features of the systems of thought and philosophical works dealt with;
3. To acquire the correct terminology in expressing the concepts and problems expounded by the authors studied;
4. Know how to connect philosophical thought with the more general themes of contemporary culture.
Knowledge of the general lines of contemporary thought.
Of an apocalyptic tone recently adopted in philosophy. The idea of the end and contemporary philosophical culture.
Classroom readings of significant passages from the following texts:
W. Benjamin, Sul concetto di storia, Einaudi, Torino 1997;
E. Bloch, Il principio speranza, Garzanti, Milano 1994;
E. Bloch, Lo spirito dell’utopia, Sansoni, Milano 2004;
H. Blumenberg, La legittimità dell’età moderna, Marietti, Casale Monferrato 1992;
H. Blumenberg, La passione secondo Matteo, il Mulino, Bologna 1992;
G. Deleuze, L’esausto, Nottetempo, Milano 2015;
G. Deleuze, Nietzsche e san Paolo, Lawrence e Giovanni di Patmos, in id., Clinica e critica, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 1996 pp. 53-73;
G. Deleuze – G. Agamben, Bartleby. La formula della creazione, Quodlibet, Macerata 2012;
J. Derrida, Di un tono apocalittico adottato di recente in filosofia, Jaca Book, Milano 2020;
M. Foucault, Critica e illuminismo, Donzelli, Roma 1997;
M. Heidegger, Contributi alla filosofia (Dall’evento), Adelphi, Milano 2007;
P. Ricoeur, Tempo e racconto, Jaca Book, Milano 1986-1988.

Secondary sources:
A. Tagliapietra, Icone della fine. Immagini apocalittiche, filmografie, miti, il Mulino, Milano 2010;
A, Tagliapietra, Gioacchino da Fiore e le origini teologiche del pensiero italiano contemporaneo, in “Il Pensiero. Rivista di filosofia” LVII (2018), n. 2, pp. 105-124;
G. Agamben, Il tempo che resta. Un commento alla Lettera ai Romani, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2000;
M. Cacciari, Della cosa ultima, Adelphi, Milano 2004;
C. Ciancio – M. Pagano – E. Gamba (a c. di), Filosofia ed escatologia, Mimesis, Udine-Milano 2017;
E. De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, Einaudi, Torino 2002;
N. Frye, Il Grande Codice. La Bibbia e la letteratura, Einaudi, Torino 1986;
K. Löwith, Significato e fine della storia, il Saggiatore, Milano 2015;
I. Kant, La fine di tutte le cose, a c. di A. Tagliapietra, Bollati Boringhieri, Milano 2006;
F. Kermode, Il senso della fine. Studi sulla teoria del romanzo, Sansoni, Milano 2004;
S. Natoli, Il crollo del mondo. Apocalisse ed escatologia, Morcelliana, Brescia 2009;
M. Revault d’Allonnes, La crisi senza fine. Saggio sull’esperienza moderna del tempo, O Barra O Edizioni, Milano 2014;
H. Rosa, Accelerazione e alienazione. Per una teoria critica del tempo nella tarda modernità, Einaudi, Torino 2015;
E. Severino, La gloria. Risoluzione di “Destino della necessità”, Adelphi, Milano 2001;
P. Sloterdijk, Non siamo ancora stati salvati: Saggi dopo Heidegger, Bompiani, Milano 2004;
J. Taubes, Escatologia occidentale, Garzanti, Milano 2017;
J. Taubes, Messianesimo e cultura. Saggi di politica, teologia e storia, Garzanti, Milano 2001;
S. Žižek, Vivere alla fine dei tempi, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze 2011;
S. Žižek, Evento, De Agostini, Novara 2014.

For those wishing to supplement their prerequisite preparation, we recommend reading G. Fornero e S. Tassinari, Le filosofie del Novecento, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2002.
The examination will consist of an oral colloquium in which students will have to demonstrate their knowledge of the texts commented on in class and of the general framework of the subject matter presented during the course (lecture notes, presentations, slides and excerpts made available in the documents section of the university). Relevant indicators in the assessment of the exam: 1. Ability to deal with the required topics in a cross-critical manner; 2. Correctness, clarity, synthesis and fluency of presentation; 3. The student's active participation during the lessons contributes to the final assessment.
The teaching consists of lectures, in which the main texts of the authors studied will be read and commented upon, with the possible use of digital media and tools, viewing and commenting on videos, images, diagrams and conceptual schemes.
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Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 03/03/2024