Issues in the Philosophy of History
Code
722031045
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1. To understand the rational interpretation of the general sense of History as a relevant perspective of contemporary philosophical reasoning on human societies;
2. To analyse philosophical representations of historical change;
3. To question the relationship between Philosophy of History and other contemporary cultural and political representations with teleological and temporal sense.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Ends, senses and the intelligence of historical movement
The cyclical end and the cycles of the ends
Representations of historical senses (graphical and verbal narratives).
Progress, decadence, wheel of fortune
Repetition and irreversibility.
Historical reason and political reason.
Bibliography
Benoist, Jocelyn e Fabio Merlini (ed.), Après la fin de ll´histoire. Temps, monde, historicité, Paris, Vrin, 1998.
Brun, Jean, Philosophie de L´histoire. Les promesses du temps, Paris, Stock, 1996.
Catroga, Fernando, Caminhos do fim da História, Coimbra, Quarteto, 2003.
Rossi, Pietro, \"Nascita e metamorfosi della filosofia della storia\", Rivista de Filosofia, vol.CII, nº3, dic. 2011, pp.477-507.
Steinberg, Michael P. (ed.), Walter Benjamin and the demands of History, New York, Cornell University Press, 1996.
Sources:
Benjamin, Walter, \"Sur le concept de l´histoire\" in uvres, vol. 3, (trad. Maurice de Gandillac), Paris, Gallimard, 2000, pp.427-443.
Condorcet, Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat de, Oeuvres, Paris, F. Didot, 1847.
Feuerbach, Ludwig, Manifestes Philosophiques. Textes choisis (1839-1845), (trad. Louis Althusser), Paris, PUF, 1960.
Marx, Karl, \"Le 18-Brumaire de Louis Bonaparte\" in Mark/Engels, uvres choisies, vol.1, Moscovo, Progrès, 1970, pp.410-507.
Vico, Giambattista, Principi di scienza nuova, Nápoles, Muziana, 1744 (3ª ed.).
Teaching method
Evaluation method
Written paper, oral presentation, interventions during the seminar.