Alterities - 2nd semester
Code
722011026
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria Lucília Marcos
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Understanding the relational dimension of experience.
b) Recognizing the universality and the diversity.
c) Recognizing that thinking is necessarily “to think with…” and “to think between…” (subjects, affections, representations, objects, images, concepts).
d) Understanding the persistence of a “rest” incommensurable to the “same”.
e) Thinking on articulations and separations, on relations and interruptions.
f) Grasping that the “sameness” is always contaminated by the alterity and that the “other” aims also to the place of the “same”.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
A – Groundings of intersubjectivity.
B – Dimensions of recognition.
C – Narrative hermeneutics.
Bibliography
AGAMBEN, Giorgio (2002), L’Ouvert. De l’homme et de l’animal, Paris: Payot et Rivages.
BECK Ulrich (2006), Revue Sciences Humaines, n.176.
DELEUZE, Gilles (1968), Différence et Répétition, Paris: Minuit.
DELEUZE, Gilles (1991), Qu’est-ce que la philosophie?, Paris: Minuit.
HONNETH, Axel (1995), The Fragmented World of the Social, NY, New York Press.
KEARNEY, Richard (1984), Poétique du possible, Phénoménologie Herméneutique de la Figuration, Paris: Beauchesne.
KEARNEY, Richard (2002), On Stories, London, Routledge.
KEARNEY, Richard (2003), Strangers, Gods and Monsters, Interpreting Otherness, London, Routledge.
MARCOS, Maria Lucília, (2008), Reconhecimento. Do desejo ao direito, Lisboa, Colibri.
RICOEUR, PAUL (2005), Parcours de la reconnaissance, Paris, Folio Essais.
VOGEL, Mathias (2012). Media of Reason. A Theory of Rationality, Columbia Univ. Press
Teaching method
Theoretical-practical (60-40%): Seminary method (lecturing, reading and commenting)
Evaluation method
1) Participation in sessions
2) Suggested readings
3) Oral presentation in the seminary
4) Written paper