2017/2018

2018/2019

DM270

M-FIL/01 (THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

PHILOSOPHY

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (24/09/2018 - 09/01/2019)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

VANZAGO LUCA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

The frequency of the lectures of the course is not mandatory, however it is very strongly recommended in order to properly prepare for examination.

The lecture course aims at providing students with analytical and logical tools and with fundamental skills in argumentation and in interpretation that are necessary for autonomously treating the problems of theoretical philosophy. The notions of truth and of philosophical objectivity will be deepened and a particular attention will be paid to the philosophical discourse as a form of knowledge.

Programme for students who follow or do not follow the lectures

Sensible experience. Investigations on phenomenological aesthetics.

This year's course aims to deepen the problem of sensibility, which phenomenology has placed under the category of phenomenological aesthetics. The essential problems of this question will be discussed, starting from Husserl's deepening of the Kantian ideas contained in the transcendental Aesthetics of the Critique of Pure Reason. Husserl elaborates his own much more detailed and in-depth version, which is at the origin of unpredictable and very wide developments. The course therefore aims to outline the origin of this question, discussing some basic passages of the Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology of 1913. Starting from this conceptualization, the course will discuss some of the theses supported by M. Merleau-Ponty in the Phenomenology of perception, then focus on the ideas of M. Henry that are proposed in the monumental work entitled The essence of the manifestation and then summarised in Material phenomenology. The central question of these investigations lies in the role to be assigned to sensibility and what significance this concept is to possess.

Lectures, seminars.

The teacher presents the main concepts contained in the texts analyzed in class, and critically discusses the meaning with the aim of outlining its implications. The seminar structure favors the personal discussion in order to have a profound appropriation and a comparative assessment of the theses investigated.

Main texts:


E. Husserl, Idee per una fenomenologia pura e una filosofia fenomenologica, Einaudi 2002.
M. Merleau-Ponty, Fenomenologia della percezione, Bompiani 2014.
M. Henry, Fenomenologia materiale, Guerini 2001.

Further readings:

V. Costa, Il movimento fenomenologico, La Scuola 2014.
G. Molteni, Introduzione a Michel Henry, Mimesis 2005

Oral examination

The exam consists of a series of questions of increasing difficulty, aimed at clarifying the student's preparation, comprehension and critical discussion skills.

Oral examination

The exam consists of a series of questions of increasing difficulty, aimed at clarifying the student's preparation, comprehension and critical discussion skills.