Problemas de Crítica e Tradução (not translated) - 1st semester
Code
722031057
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria João Mayer Branco
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
The seminar will be dedicated to traces of the philosophy of the tragic in our modern critical vocabulary (Leonard, 2015:5), with particular emphasis on Nietzsches and Walter Benjamins thought and the analysis of the Works, The Birth of Tragedy and The Origin of the Tragic German Drama. The seminar will include on Open Lecture in the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian with the curator Paulo Pires do Vale, in which the questions at stake will be debated in the light of the exhibition Num jardim feito de tinta. Ana Hatherly e o barroco.
Bibliography
ARISTÓTELES, Poética, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, Lisboa, 1994 (tradução, prefácio, introdução, comentário e apêndices de Eudoro de Sousa)
BENJAMIN, Walter, A origem do drama trágico alemão, Assírio e Alvim, Lisboa, 2004 (edição e tradução de João Barrento)
BILLINGS, J./ LEONARD, M. (eds.), Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity, Oxford University Press, 2015
LORAUX, Nicole, La voix endeuillée. Essai sur la tragédie grecque, Gallimard, Paris, 1999
NIETZSCHE, F., O nascimento da tragédia, Círculo de Leitores, Lisboa, 1996 (tradução, comentário e notas de Teresa R. Cadete)
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%).