Controversies in Contemporary Philosophy

Code

722031035

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Filosofia

Credits

10

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

a) To get a profound knowledge of significant controversies in the development of Contemporary Philosophy;
b) To get a profound knowledge of fundamental texts concerning the Contemporary Philosophy, as well as of the hermeneutical tradition, of the more recent interpretations and bibliography;
c) To acquire a critical ability, namely to deal with such controversies from a philosophical point of view;
d) To acquire an analytical ability to deal with the heuristic potentialities of controversy phenomena.
e) To practice the skills concerning textual production according to scientific standards.

Prerequisites

Subject matter

The controversy concerning the value of Reason.
- Reason and understanding.
- The diffraction of reason.
- The dialectics of reason.
- The dialectical reason.
- The hermeneutical reason.
- The different faces of reason: metaphysical, moral, instrumental, strategic, critical, argumentative, communicative, narrative, discursive.
- Reason, Modernity and Post.Modernity.

Bibliography

Apel, K.-O. (1988). Diskurs und Verantwortung. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
Bataille, G. (1957). L’érotisme. Paris : Minuit.
Bernstein, R. (1985). Habermas and Modernity. Oxford : Basil Blackwell.
Derrida, J. (1967). De la Grammatologie. Paris : Minuit.
Foucault, M. (1975). Surveiller et Punir. Paris : Gallimard.
Gadamer, H.-G. (1981). Reason in the Age of Science. Cambridge, Massachussets: The MIT Press.
Habermas, J. (1985) Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
Habermas, J. (1988). Nachmetaphysisches Denken. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Horkheimer, M. (2013). Eclipse of Reason. London: Continuum.
Kant, I. (1995). Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
Hegel, G. (1986). Phänomenologie des Geistes. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp.
Weil, E. (2000). Logique de la philosophie. Paris: Vrin.

Teaching method

Exposition; textual analysis; discussion.

Evaluation method

Participation in the activities of the seminar (20%); oral presentation of a text (20%); final paper with 5 to10 pages (40%).

Courses

• Philosophy - Contemporary Philosophy