2025

Topics in Landscape Philosophy

Name: Topics in Landscape Philosophy
Code: FIL14430D
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Philosophy

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

Presentation

Opcional.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This unit intends to provide an understanding of the breadth and complexity of the notion of landscape.
To present the perspectives of problematizing the notion of landscape and its contribution to philosophical questions of ontology, aesthetics and ethics.

Contents

Module I
The problematic definition of landscape. Landscape in situ, in visu, in dicto. Ethical, aesthetic and epistemological aspects. The landscape as a cultural, geographical and economic value.

Module II
The landscape before the notion of landscape. Political-religious landscapes in Antiquity and Middle Ages.
The emergence and evolution of the notion of landscape in the West and China.

Module III
The aesthetic-social function of landscape in Modernity. Landscape and power.

Module IV
Multifunctionality, ambivalence and innovation of contemporary landscapes.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical presentations; text analysis and hermeneutics; critical viewing of landscapes, gardens, cities, regions, natural and cultural heritage ensembles, using toric texts of philosophy, poetry and art.
Evaluation: assistance: 20%; participation and debate: 20%; final essay and discussion: 60%

Teaching Staff