Alterities
Code
722011026
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria Lucília Marcos
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Understanding the relational dimension of experience.
b) Recognizing the universality and the diversity.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
A – Thinking is necessarily “to think with…” and “to think between…” (subjects, affections, representations, objects, images, concepts).
B – Persistence of a “rest” incommensurable to the “same”.
C - Reflection on articulations and separations, on relations and interruptions.
B – To grasp that the “sameness” is always contaminated by the alterity, to grasp that the “other” aims also to the place of the “same”.
C – Reading and commenting a book selected each year.
Examples:
The open. On human and on animal, by Giorgio Agamben
Bartleby, The Scrievner, de H. Melville;
Philosophy in a time of terror. Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. de Giovanna Borradori.
Bibliography
AGAMBEN, Giorgio (2002), L’Ouvert. De l’homme et de l’animal, Paris: Payot et Rivages.
DELEUZE, Gilles (1968), Différence et Répétition, Paris: Minuit.
DELEUZE, Gilles (1991), Qu’est-ce que la philosophie?, Paris: Minuit.
KEARNEY, Richard (1984), Poétique du possible, Paris: Beauchesne.
LÉVINAS, Emmanuel, Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence, Paris: Livre de Poche.
MARCOS, Maria Lucilia, Princípio da relação e paradigma comunicacional, Lisboa, Colibri, 2007.
MARCOS, Maria Lucília, Reconhecimento. Do desejo ao direito, Lisboa, Colibri, 2008.
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical (60-40%): Seminary method (lecturing, reading and commenting)
Evaluation method
1) Participation in sessions
2) Suggested readings
3) Oral presentation in the seminary
4) Written paper