Learning outcomes
This course aims at providing the students with competences in order to elaborate the reasons of philosophical research through the critical comparison with other cultural and search perspectives, in relation with one’s own tradition and with the different special philosophical themes. The main aim is to favour critical reasoning and the interpretation of the different types of knowledge beyond the limits of disciplinary specialization.
In particular the focus will be on the comprehension and discussion of the theoretical orientations that have founded a new way of viewing the principal processes of the development of knowledge.
The course gives for granted the basic notions provided within the course of “History of philosophy”, and intends to analyse fundamental questions and texts of the philosophical debate.
Theoretical Thinking, World, History. Theoretical investigations and interdisciplinary researches
1. History Departments and personal selfeducation in theoretical thinking: Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations
2. Conception and role of theoretical inquiries in contemporary World: Hannah Arendt
3. Problems and perspectives of the contemporary, interdisciplinary debate on this theme.
Bibliography:
1) F. Nietzsche, The Complete Works of Fridrich Nietzsche. Vol. 2: Unfashionable Observations, translated, with an Afterword, by Richard T. Gray, Stanford University Press, 1995, second piece, chapters 1-5, and third piece chapters 1-4.
2) H. Arendt, The Human Condition, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2009, introduction, chapter VI.
3) H. Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, Beacon Press, Boston 1964, introduction, chapters 1, 5 and 7.
