DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in The History and Culture of Mediterranean Countries
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• LA LETTERATURA COME METAFORA FILOSOFICA
  
  The module will investigate, in a sort of philosophical narrative, the relationship between philosophy and classical Greek literature through the interpretation of Simone Weil.
• INTERCULTURALITA' E FILOSOFIA DI GENERE
  
  The module aims to investigate the hypothesis that hermeneutics moves between gender and literature, in a cross-cultural perspective .

Detailed Course Content

• LA LETTERATURA COME METAFORA FILOSOFICA
  
  The module will identify the links of philosophical literary metaphors around the theme of the mystical life, investigating the origin of literary philosophy between Jerusalem and Athens.
• INTERCULTURALITA' E FILOSOFIA DI GENERE
  
  The module will address the implications of the genre of literary Greek philosophy around the concepts of life and death.