Problematics of the History and Theory of Ideas - 1st semester
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
Anderson, B. (2005). Comunidades Imaginadas. Reflexões Sobre a Origem e a Expansão do Nacionalismo. Lisboa: Edições 70.
Castro, Z. O. (1996). Da História das Ideias à História das Ideias Políticas. Cultura, Revista de História e Teoria das Ideias, pp.11-21.
Chartier, R. (1988). A História Cultural entre Práticas e Representações. Lisboa: Difel.
Falco, F. (1997). História das Ideias. Cardoso, Ciro Flamarion e Vainfas Ronaldo, Domínios da História. In Ensaios de Teoria e Metodologia (pp.98-113). Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Campus.
Pereira, J. E. (1992). Sobre a História das Ideias. Intervenções. Recensões (1982-1988). Lisboa: CHC/UNL.
Skinner, Q. (2005). Visões da Política. Questões Metodológicas. Lisboa: DIFEL.
Teaching method
Lectures.
Analyzes and reviews of texts.
Discussion of topics and papers presented by students.
Evaluation method
Evaluation: Active participation in class and presentation of oral and written work (60%) and test (40%).