2023

Theory and Contemporary Thought

Name: Theory and Contemporary Thought
Code: VIS14108D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Artes Plásticas

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The course aims to introduce, through a critical awareness of the contemporary, relevant issues and problems in the current philosophical reflection that have an essential and decisive impact on the disciplinary perspectives of PhD students, in the formulation of research proposals and in the projects they propose.

Contents

1. The contemporary, as a problem for philosophical reflection, aesthetic experience and common experience. Extended modernity: world
culturalization, economic globalization and ecological crisis. The reformulation of the human.
2. About teckné, as a question: technologies, apparatuses, arts ;
3. About time, as an enigma: historicity, temporality, events. To act, to perform, to make;
4. About space, as a situation: scales, places, landscapes.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical methodology, combining the expository method with the encouragement to the student's intervention, in its most varied aspects (participation in the class, text commentary, own readings, individual investigation, etc.). The analysis of examples and cases proposed by students, based on their own experience and research, will be promoted.
The assessment will combine the student's performance in with the production and discussion of a previously agreed final essay.
Continuous assessment is not considered.

Teaching Staff

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