2024
Contemporary Philosophical Thinking
Name: Contemporary Philosophical Thinking
Code: FIL02565L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Philosophy
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
It is intended to contribute to students focusing on the horizon of contemporary thinking, especially of vectors and streams within the interface with problems of Psychology, as a complement to other subjects of compulsory attendance.
Students should
1) To acquire basic information about fundamental streams in contemporary philosophy;
2) To identify some of the key issues and methodology;
3) To exercise the acquired knowledge in analyzing a problem;
4) To present and critically discuss readings.
Students should
1) To acquire basic information about fundamental streams in contemporary philosophy;
2) To identify some of the key issues and methodology;
3) To exercise the acquired knowledge in analyzing a problem;
4) To present and critically discuss readings.
Contents
1. What is contemporary?
• Historical, cultural and philosophical notions of contemporary
• Contemporaneity, Modernity, Postmodernity
• The time of the subject's autonomy
2. What is new in contemporary times?
• The fragmentation of knowledge in the early 20th century
• Interpretation and transformation of the world
• From certainty to suspicion: in the shadow of conscience
3. Streams of contemporary thought
• Suspicion thinkers (Ricoeur)
• Marx and ideology
• Freud and Psychoanalysis
• Nietzsche and the afterworlds
• Husserl's Phenomenology of intentionality
• The phenomenological discovery of existence: Heidegger and Sartre.
• Exemplary analysis of an existential phenomenon (anguish)
• The pathology of symbolic consciousness: Cassirer
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4. Actually: Autonomy Vs depression, excess of positivity
• Technoscience and ideology
• The otherness of madness, according to Foucault
• The production of depression (Ehrenberg)
• Historical, cultural and philosophical notions of contemporary
• Contemporaneity, Modernity, Postmodernity
• The time of the subject's autonomy
2. What is new in contemporary times?
• The fragmentation of knowledge in the early 20th century
• Interpretation and transformation of the world
• From certainty to suspicion: in the shadow of conscience
3. Streams of contemporary thought
• Suspicion thinkers (Ricoeur)
• Marx and ideology
• Freud and Psychoanalysis
• Nietzsche and the afterworlds
• Husserl's Phenomenology of intentionality
• The phenomenological discovery of existence: Heidegger and Sartre.
• Exemplary analysis of an existential phenomenon (anguish)
• The pathology of symbolic consciousness: Cassirer
•
4. Actually: Autonomy Vs depression, excess of positivity
• Technoscience and ideology
• The otherness of madness, according to Foucault
• The production of depression (Ehrenberg)
Teaching Methods
Exposition, accompanied by reading and commentary of texts, in printed and video media. The debate among all the participants is privileged.
Assessment
Assessment can be by final exam (100%) or by continuous assessment. Continuous assessment will be based on:
1) attendance and active participation (20%);
2) at least one oral presentation on a text or a theme, or a report in (40%);
3) a final written exam (40%)
1) attendance and active participation (20%);
2) at least one oral presentation on a text or a theme, or a report in (40%);
3) a final written exam (40%)
Teaching Staff
- Olivier Martin Louis Albert René Feron [responsible]
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