Problemas de Crítica e Tradução (not translated)
Code
722031057
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To acquire the capacity to identify and question the traditional aporiai of critique and translation
b) To acquire the capacity to recognize the fundamental relations between those aporiai and other aesthetic problems and concepts (e.g. meaning/ sign)
c) To acquire the capacity to analyze the conditions of the application and enlargement of those aporiai to the fields of literary studies and philosophy of art.
d) To acquire the capacity to understand the specificity of the problems of critique and translation within the context of philosophy (ontology, hermeneutics) and the social sciences (history, anthropology, linguistics, communication).
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. Silence as a condition of art in Bataille, Malraux, Blanchot
2. Signature and counter-signature: reading Francis Ponge and Jacques Derrida.
3. Critique and archive: destination, selection, memory, witnessing.
4. Jacques Derridas pharmakon and the impossibility of absolute translation.
5. Hölderlin: translation as a breakup with speculation.
6. Walter Benjamin: the task of the translator.
Bibliography
-Bataille, G. (1955). Manet. Étude biographique et critique. Genève: Skira
-Blanchot, M. (1971). Lamitié. Paris: Gallimard.
-Derrida, J. (1972). “La Pharmatie de Platon, La dissémination, Paris: Seuil.
-Derrida, J. (1988). Signéponge, Paris: Seuil.
-Derrida, J. (1995). Mal DArchive, Paris: Galilée.
-Derrida, J. (1987). Psyché. Inventions de lautre. Paris: Galilée.
-Lacoue-Labarthe, P. (1986). Limitation des modernes. Typographies II, Paris: Galilée.
Teaching method
(a) most classes are dialogued lectures, (b) several of them work as a \"seminar\" (with reading, commentary, and analyses of texts), (c) other classes (so-called \"practical\" classes) consist in critical discussions with the students of previously presented themes and problems.
Evaluation method
(d) students are evaluated by a mandatory 12 pages essay (70%); (e) students are also evaluated by an oral presentation of their essay (20%); (f) a positive participation in the classes is valued (10%).