Seminar in Philosophy of Culture
Code
73203104
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Luís Manuel Bernardo
Weekly hours
2
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To understand culture as a production, an appropriation and a transformation of men.
b) To relate culture with different expressions of human representations;
c) To debate the relationship between reason, culture and cultural diversity.
d) To discuss the way cultural legacies are constituted and transformed.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
- Culture and nature; unity and multiplicity of cultures.
- The cultural dimensions of philosophy.
- Education as cultural transmission.
- The processes of reception.
- Myth and reason.
- The critique of modernity.
- The hermeneutics of subjectivity.
- Philosophy and literature.
Bibliography
Arendt, H. (2006). Between Past and Future. New York : Penguin.
Cassirer, E. (2010). Philosophie der symbolischen Formen. Hamburg : Felix Meiner.
Diderot, D. (1994). Œuvres. Paris : Robert Laffont.
Habermas, J. (1985). Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
Hegel, G. (1986). Phänomenologie des Geistes. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
Foucault, M. (2001). L’herméneutique du sujet. Paris : Seuil.
Lorvellec, G. (2002). Culture et Education. Paris : L’Harmattan.
Renaut, A. (1989). L’ère de l’individu. Paris : Gallimard.
Ricoeur, P. (2015). Soi-même comme un autre. Paris : Seuil.
Taylor, C. (1989). Sources of the Self. The making of the modern identity. Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press.
Weil, E. (2000). Logique de la philosophie. Paris: Vrin.
White, M. (2005). A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Teaching method
Teaching methodologies: Combination of seminar and tutorial survey. Interpretation and commentary of texts. Analysis and debate of thesis and problems. Discussion of research plans.
Evaluation method
Participation in the seminar’s activities (30%); Presentation and discussion of research projects (30%); written essay with the typology of a paper (40%).