Enrollment year
2016/2017
Academic discipline
M-FIL/06 (HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 01/06/2018)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Prerequisites
The students who sit the exam of History of Early Modern Philosophy -b should demonstrate a basic understanding of the philosophical thought of the XV-XVIII centuries.
Learning outcomes
The course will be focused on a theme, a text or an author of particular importance for early modern philosophy, and will explore it through a critical analysis of works, of methodological issues and of the most important interpretations.
Course contents
A reading of Vico's New Science.
This course is at a monographic level, i.e. is focused on a single author. It aims at reading and interpreting the most significant excerpts of the work by Giambattista Vico.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
G. Vico, La Scienza Nuova. Le tre edizioni del 1725, 1730 e 1744, Bompiani, Milano 2012;
L. Amoroso, Introduzione alla Scienza Nuova di Vico, ETS, Pisa 2011.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
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