Problematics of the History and Theory of Ideas
Code
711031076
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Júlio Silva
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This course is intended that the student is able to:
1) Understanding the complexity of the various conceptions of the History of Ideas, through the confrontation with its multiple approaches.
2) Develop critical thinking on major trends in the History of Culture and simultaneously how to relate new concepts of the History of Ideas.
3) Seeing the contribution of the History of Political Ideas for a reflection on the importance of the History of Ideas in understanding the transformation of the political culture of modernity.
4) Reinforce the importance of the History of Political Ideas in the construction of identities and memories of the contemporary world, taking into account the complex relationship between past and present within the existing legal representations.
Prerequisites
not applicable
Subject matter
1) Presentation. Explanation of the problem.
2) The conceptions of the History of Ideas
2.1. The Intellectual History
2.2. The History of Concepts
2.3. The Cambridge School.
3) Approaches in the History of Culture.
3.1 The History of Mentality.
3.2. The New Cultural History.
4) A History of Political Ideas: on the threshold of the History of Ideas and History of Culture.
4.1. Ruptures and continuities in the political discourse of modernity.
5) Identity and collective memories
5.1 Images and social representations
5.2. A celebration of the past, of the present invention and imagination of the future.
Bibliography
1) Anderson, Benedict - Imagined Communities, Lisbon, Edições 70, 2005.
2) Castro Osório de Zília - \"From History of Ideas to History of Political Ideas,\" Culture, Journal of the History of Ideas and Theory, Lisbon, CHC / UNL, Vol VIII, Series II, 1996 pp.11-21 .
3) Chartier, Roger - The Cultural history between practices and representations. Lisbon Difel, 1988.
4) Pereira, José Esteves - About the History of Ideas. Interventions. Book review (1982-1988), Lisbon, CHC / UNL, 1992.
5) Skinner, Quentin - Visions of Politics, Lisbon, Difel 2005.
Teaching method
Lectures.
Analyzes and reviews of texts.
Discussion of topics and papers presented by students.
Evaluation method
Written test for the evaluation of knowledge.
Presentation and discussion of papers.