2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

M-FIL/01 (THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

VANZAGO LUCA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Having passed the examination in Theoretical Philosophy (advanced).

The course aims to provide the means to acquire the basic concepts of the discipline, and the attitude at critical thinking.

The problem of bodily experience. The body as subject and as object. Phenomenological analyses.

One of the most widespread certainties of contemporary theory of knowledge seems to be that the experiencing subject is a bodily subject. Yet what exactly does it mean that the body experiences? Who or what is the experiencing body? And what does it experience? In order to answer these questions, some of the most important theoretical elaborations accomplished in the phenomenological tradition will be discussed. Starting from Husserl’s seminal remarks contained in the second volume of his Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and a phenomenological philosophy, and passing through Merleau-Ponty’s grandiose articulation worked out in his Phenomenology of perception, the work by Michel Henry, Incorporation, will then be studied in particular. The course will then try to critically articulate this problem by taking into account Jean-Luc Nancy’s more recent work entitled Corpus.

Lectures.

Introductory text:

U. Galimberti, Corpo, Feltrinelli 1983.

Main Texts:

E. Husserl, Idee per una fenomenologia pura e una filosofia fenomenologica, volume 2. Einaudi, 2002.
M. Merleau-Ponty, Fenomenologia della percezione, Bompiani, 2002.
M. Henry, Incarnazione, SEI, 2001.
Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus, Cronopio, 2004.

Written.