2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

M-FIL/06 (HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

12

72 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

INVERNIZZI GIUSEPPE (titolare) - 12 ECTS

No prerequisite

The course introduces to the major theoretical issues and significant currents of philosophical thought from Kant to the present, through the study of selected texts and literature, and explores a theme, a text or an author of particular importance for the history of contemporary philosophy, through critical analysis of works, of methodological issues and of more meaningful interpretations.

The philosophy of Schopenhauer.
The first part of the course will be devoted to illustrate the most important events and figures of the history of philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche.
The second part of the course will deal monographically with the fundamental lines of Schopenhauer's system with particular regard to moral philosophy. Schopenhauerian ethics will be studied both in relation to its sources, and mainly in relation to Kantian practical philosophy, and in relation to the interpretations developed later, with special reference to Nietzsche's thought.

Lectures

Part one:
G.Cambiano - L.Fonnesu - M.Mori, Storia della filosofia occidentale, vol. 4, La filosofia classica tedesca e vol.5, Dal moderno al contemporaneo,Il Mulino, Bologna 2014 -2015.
The use of other handbooks must be agreed with the professor.

Part two:
a) Basic text:
A. Schopenhauer, Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione, a cura di S. Giametta, 2 voll., Rizzoli, Milano 2002 o ristampe seguenti
or
A. Schopenhauer, Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione, a cura di A. Vigliani, Mondadori, Milano 1989.

b) Literature
Two books among:
S. Barbera, Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione. Introduzione alla lettura, Carocci, Roma 1998
M. Houellebecq, In presenza di Schopenhauer, La nave di Teseo, Milano 2017
G. Invernizzi, Invito al pensiero di Schopenhauer, Mursia, Milano 2011
Ch. Janaway, Self and World in Schopenhauer's Philosophy, Oxford/New York 1989
E. Sans, Schopenhauer, Xenia, Milano 1999
R. Safranski, Schopenhauer e gli anni selvaggi della filosofia, Tea, Milano 2008
M. Segala, Schopenhauer, la filosofia, le scienze, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 2009
I.Vecchiotti, Introduzione a Schopenhauer, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005

The test on the first part of the course (institutional part) has to be taken in written form. The test has to be passed before the oral examination concerning the second part (monographic part).
Students are allowed to take the written test immediately after the end of the first trimester (beginning of November) or in special sessions in Januar/Februar, in June/July and in September.
The test on the second part of the course is in oral form.

The test on the first part of the course serves as one of the three papers requested to be admitted to the three-years degree, as established in the didactic disposition.