HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

To Understand and critically investigate the development of contemporary philosophy in the XIX and XX centuries through the most representative philosophers.

- To be able to have a critical look at the doctrines of the philosophers within an historical framework.

- To be able to argue on their thinking, using appropriate logical and linguistic tools.

Lectures (methodological strategy used: Active learning), Group work, Exercises on the philosophical text.

The following matters will be examined: Mind, Knowledge, Language, Science, Morality, Politics, Law, Metaphysics, the re-enactment of the History of Philosophy.

In addition, the following thinkers will be dealt with through their biographical and philosophical development: Post-Hegelian Schools, Schopehauer, Marx, Husserl, Heidegger (in particular: investigation about the concept of "Zeit"), Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Benjamin, Russell, The Vienna and Berlin Circles, Popper.

Section A: G. Cambiano, M. Mori, Storia della filosofia contemporanea, Laterza, Bari 2014. Section B: M. Heidegger, Il concetto di tempo (1924), Adelphi, Milano 1998.