HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

Sociology and philosophy of knowledge.
The course aims to problematise the relationship between sociology, philosophy, sociology of knowledge and history of philosophy, with the aim of introducing sociological tools useful for understanding the history of contemporary philosophy.

- He is familiar with some of the main reflections on the connection between sociology, philosophy and the history of philosophy and the epistemic scope of sociological tools in philosophical texts.
- He is aware of the main methodologies in sociology, intellectual history and the history and epistemology of science.
- Is able to imagine different methods and approaches to the history of philosophy.

In order to deal effectively with the contents of the course, the student must have acquired the following during the three-year course: mastery of the philosophical vocabulary; knowledge of the fundamental themes and junctures of the history of philosophy up to the early 20th century.

In a first part, the teaching aims to subject a series of sociological concepts aimed at the study of science and knowledge in general to historical and epistemological analysis. This part will entail the analysis of texts by the classics of sociology-Comte, Spencer, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Manneheim, Merton, Bourdieu, Bloor- in order to understand the genesis of these concepts, their role in the theoretical framework of these authors and their relation to certain problems that philosophy has posed during modernity. In a second part we will try to understand if and how these concepts (field, centre/periphery, habitus, generation, capital, conflict and controversy...) can be useful when we do history of philosophy in order to understand phenomena that the history of 'classical' philosophy cannot explain effectively. During this second part, we will examine some case studies of philosophers who opined during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Emile Durkheim, Sociologia e filosofia, Mimesi, Milano 2015.
Max Weber, La scienza come professione. La politica come professione, Einaudi, Torino, 2005
Paul-Louis Landsberg, Teoria sociologica della conoscenza, Ipermedium Libri, Napoli, 2002.
Norbert Elias, Teoria dei simboli, Il Mulino, Bologna, 1998.
Thomas S. Kuhn, La struttura delle rivoluzioni scientifiche, Einaudi, Torino, 1969.
Karl Mannheim, Sociologia della conoscenza, Bologna, Mulino, 2000.
Jacques Verger, Sociologia della conoscenza teologica nel Medioevo, Jaca Book, Milano, 1996.
Pierre Bourdieu, Meditazioni pascaliane, Feltrinelli, 1998
Pierre Bourdieu, Sul concetto di campo in sociologia, Armando, 2010
Anna Boschetti, La rivoluzione simbolica di Pierre Bourdieu : con un inedito e altri scritti, Venezia, Marisilio, 2003

Pierre Bourdieu, Führer della filosofia? L'ontologia politica di Martin Heidegger, Il Mulino, 1989
Anna Boschetti, L'impresa intellettuale. Sartre e «Les temps modernes. Dedalo 1884
Jean-Louis Fabiani, Les Philosophes de la République, Paris, Minuit, 1988.
José Luis Moreno Pestana, En devenant Foucault, Paris Croquant, 2006.
Anna Boschetti, Benedetto Croce. Il dominio simbolico, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2024.
Martin Kusch. Psychologism: A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge, London, Springer 1995.

The final examination will be oral, involving a dozen open questions that will be announced at the end of the course, from which four each@ will be chosen at random, and on which the discussion will be based. Students who wish to submit a short written work on certain topics and authors or, during the meetings, a presentation (in the form of a short lecture) will be exempt from one or two questions. Assessment will also be based on attendance and interaction during the meetings.

written and oral

Grading will follow departmental guidelines.

Lectures, class discussions, student presentations, possible seminars with invited speakers.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development