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 knowledge of the thought of Aristotle (‘Metaphysics’, ‘De Anima’) and Descartes (in particular the ‘Metaphysical Meditations’)

The course will consist of a critical comparison between Husserl's transcendental phenomenology outlined in ‘Cartesian Meditations’ and Martin Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology developed in ‘Being and Time’. For this reason, after a careful reading of the ‘Cartesian Meditations’, the course will focus on the parts of ‘Being and Time’ that are most decisive for the comparison between the two approaches: the concept of phenomenon, the project of a fundamental ontology, the critique of the modern subjectivist tradition, the existential conception of the world, the Heideggerian conception of truth, understanding and historicity.

Husserl, "Meditazioni Cartesiane", (A cura di Andrea Altobrando, Napoli-Salerno: Orthotes 2017)
Heidegger, M. "Essere e Tempo", (A cura di Franco Volpi sulla versione di Pietro Chiodi, Milano: Longanesi 2023)


Further readings
Costa V. Husserl, Carocci, Roma 2009
Costa V. Franzini E., Spinicci P. , La fenomenologia, Einaudi, Torino 2002
D. De Santis, (ed.), "Edmund Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations", Verlag Karl Alber, Baden Baden
Franzini E. Fenomenologia: introduzione tematica al pensiero di Husserl, Franco Angeli, Milano 1999.
Lavigne J.-Fr. (Ed.) Les méditations cartésiennes de Husserl. Vrin, Parigi, 2008.
Biemel W. "Le concept de monde chez Heidegger", Vrin, Parigi 2005.
Dastur, F. "Le concept de monde chez Heidegger après Être et Temps", Alter, 6/1998
Esposito, C. "Introduzione a Heidegger", il Mulino, Bologna, 2017
Fabris a., "Essere e tempo di Heidegger", Carocci, Roma, 2020.
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
Husserl E, & Heidegger M. "Fenomenologia", Edizioni Unicopli, Milano 1999
Paltrinieri, G.L. "Heidegger e l’epoché fenomenologica di Husserl", LOGOI.PH, vol. X, 2024, pp. 171-183
Perissinotto, L. "Le vie dell'interpretazione nella filosofia contemporanea", Laterza Roma-Bari, 2002.
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

oral

The course includes 6 hours of weekly lessons.

Italian

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.