9796743 - STORIA DELLA CULTURA TEDESCA

Knowledge of some fundamental points of contemporary German culture. Ability to read and interpret interdisciplinary texts.

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

Knowledge of the main currents and fundamental authors of the history of contemporary German philosophy and culture

A - The cultural context (2 ECTS).

A:

- T. Pinkard, La filosofia tedesca 1760-1860. L’eredità dell’idealismo, Torino, Einaudi, 2014, pp. 3-21 e 160-208.

- K. Löwith, Da Hegel a Nietzsche. La frattura rivoluzionaria nel pensiero del secolo XIX, Torino, Einaudi, 2000, pp. 11-57, 89-116 e 190-211.

- W. Dilthey, Il movimento poetico e filosofico in Germania tra il 1770 e 1l 1800 (Prolusione di Basilea, 1867), in Archivio di Storia della Cultura, 1998, XI, pp. 243-259 (including the introductory essay by G. Magnano San Lio, Dilthey e la Geistesbewegung tedesca tra illuminismo e romanticismo (ibidem, pp. 223-241).

- G. Moretti, Heidelberg romantica. Romanticismo tedesco e nichilismo europeo, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013, pp. 133-171 e 227-250.

B:

- M. Bozzetti, Introduzione a Hölderlin, Roma/Bari, Laterza, 2004 (pp. 125).

- W. Dilthey, Friedrich Hölderlin, in Id., Esperienza vissuta e poesia, Genova, Il Melangolo, 1999, pp. 353-467.

- E. Cassirer, Hölderlin e l’idealismo tedesco, Roma, Donzelli, 2000 (pp. 90).

- K. Jaspers, Hölderlin, in Id. Genio e follia. Strindberg e Van Gogh, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2001, pp. 119-134.

- G. Agamben, La follia di Hölderlin, Torino, Einaudi, 2021 (pp. 240).

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Learning assessment procedures: an in itinere written or oral test is foreseen (to be agreed with
 the students). The written test will consist of three open-ended questions (the duration of the test 
is two hours). The assessment of the test will take into account the mastery of the contents and 
skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical properties, as well as the argumentative ability 
demonstrated by the candidate.
Final oral exam. The assessment of the exam will take into account the
mastery of the contents and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical
properties, as well as the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate.

The link between literature, philosophy and poetry in German idealism.

The philosophical roots of Hölderlin's training.