2023
Modern and Contemporary Thought II
Name: Modern and Contemporary Thought II
Code: FIL12733L
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
At the end of the curricular unit in coordination with the contents and methodology of the unit Modern and
Contemporary Thought I -, the students should be able to:
- To identify the main characteristics of contemporary epoch;
- To identify the originality of the thought, the living experience and the representation that contemporary man
has from himself;
- To master the main concepts of contemporary thought;
- To use some of these notions in the hermeneutics of contemporary culture;
- To be able to debate contemporary problem fields with he help of concepts and methodology previously
discussed during class;
- To have read and discussed at least to fundamental texts of contemporary thought.
- Students should also become able to participate as active players in the public debate concerning the relevance
of the philosophical tradition for the ongoing cultural processes of our time
Contemporary Thought I -, the students should be able to:
- To identify the main characteristics of contemporary epoch;
- To identify the originality of the thought, the living experience and the representation that contemporary man
has from himself;
- To master the main concepts of contemporary thought;
- To use some of these notions in the hermeneutics of contemporary culture;
- To be able to debate contemporary problem fields with he help of concepts and methodology previously
discussed during class;
- To have read and discussed at least to fundamental texts of contemporary thought.
- Students should also become able to participate as active players in the public debate concerning the relevance
of the philosophical tradition for the ongoing cultural processes of our time
Contents
I. Science as model Life as goal
Between scientism and the multiplication of new sciences
Splendor and collapse of logical atomism
Time as interpret of life: the hermeneutic of Dilthey
II. The return to Descartes or Kant: when the XXth century search heroes
A new Descartes: the phenomenology of Husserl
Heidegger or the fall into existence
Listening to the flesh of the world: Merleau-Ponty the sensible
Sartre or the stubbornness of liberty
The symbolical anthropogenesis of man: Cassirer the polyphonic
III. Filosofar after Auchwitz
Politics as challenge: Hannah Arendt
The Frankfurt school
Habermas and the communicational praxis
Foucault and the archeology of knowledge/power
Derrida and the infinite disassembly of illusions
IV. Philosophy between anthropology and culture
Philosophical anthropology as fundament
Man as symbolic producing animal
Culture as the constitution of an human habitat: the Spheres of Sloterdijk
Man: the animal that returns to the caves of Culture (H. Blumenberg)
Between scientism and the multiplication of new sciences
Splendor and collapse of logical atomism
Time as interpret of life: the hermeneutic of Dilthey
II. The return to Descartes or Kant: when the XXth century search heroes
A new Descartes: the phenomenology of Husserl
Heidegger or the fall into existence
Listening to the flesh of the world: Merleau-Ponty the sensible
Sartre or the stubbornness of liberty
The symbolical anthropogenesis of man: Cassirer the polyphonic
III. Filosofar after Auchwitz
Politics as challenge: Hannah Arendt
The Frankfurt school
Habermas and the communicational praxis
Foucault and the archeology of knowledge/power
Derrida and the infinite disassembly of illusions
IV. Philosophy between anthropology and culture
Philosophical anthropology as fundament
Man as symbolic producing animal
Culture as the constitution of an human habitat: the Spheres of Sloterdijk
Man: the animal that returns to the caves of Culture (H. Blumenberg)
Teaching Methods
TP Classes (assessed through a test 70% of final grade): theoretical exposition and debate on texts.
TC Classes (individual report 30% of final grade): organization of lecture - debate by the teacher with the
participation of the students on relevant topics of the matter
The examination regime includes a final proof
TC Classes (individual report 30% of final grade): organization of lecture - debate by the teacher with the
participation of the students on relevant topics of the matter
The examination regime includes a final proof
Teaching Staff
