TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
1. INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT. GENEALOGIES.
2. PRAGMATISM.
3. THE REVIVAL OF LOGIC AND CRITICISM OF METAPHYSICS.
4. FROM LOGICAL POSITIVISM TO PHILOSOPHY OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE.
5. ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE CENTURY.
7. FROM PHENOMENOLOGY TO EXISTENTIALISM.
8. FRENCH EXISTENTIALISM. PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE.
9. CRITICAL THEORY.
10. STRUCTURALISM.
11. POSTMODERN TIMES.
12. HERMENEUTICS: DIALOGUE AND LANGUAGE.
13. DECONSTRUCTION AND PHILOSOPHY.
14. NEOPRAGMATISM AND THE END OF PHILOSOPHY.
READINGS:
1
The birth of modernity ", in Ch. Delacampagne. History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century; G. Steiner, Real Presences.
REQUIRED READINGS:
Nietzsche: Aurora, The Gay Science, Human All Too Human (Excerpts)
Freud: The Poet and daydreams.
2
H. Putnam: Pragmatism
REQUIRED READINGS:
W. James: "The concept of truth in pragmatism".
J. Dewey: "The influence of Darwinism on philosophy ", in the Misery of Epistemology.
3.
J. Ayer: The logical positivism. IntroductioN.
REQUIRED READINGS:
G. Frege: "On Sense and Reference ".
R. Carnap: "The overcoming of metaphysics through logical analysis of language ".
4.
Ph. Alston: The Origins of Analytical Philosophy. Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein.
REQUIRED READINGS:
B. Russell: "Logical Atomism"
L. Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logicus-Philosophicus; Philosophical Investigations (EXCERPTS)
5.
E. Tugendhat. Introduction to Analytic Philosophy.
REQUIRED READINGS:
W. O. Quine: "Two Dogms of Empiricism "
D. Davidson: "The empirical content" in Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective. Or "The myth of the subjective ", in Mind, World and ActioN.
6
W. Szilashi. Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology
REQUIRED READINGS:
E. Husserl: An Invitation to Phenomenology, or The Idea of ¿¿Phenomenology. Five Lessons.
7.
V. Fatone: Introduction to Existentialism.
REQUIRED READINGS:
M. Heidegger: § § 32 to 35 of Being and Time.
8.
S. de Beauvoir: Existentialism and the Wisdom of the People.
REQUIRED READINGS:
J.P. Sartre: "Existentialism is a Humanism".
A. Camus: "The Myth of Sisyphus".
9
r. Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School.
REQUIRED READINGS:
W. Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". "Theses of the Philosophy of History" in Angelus Novus.
T. Adorno, Minima Moralia (EXCERPTS).
10
G. Deleuze. "What is recognized as structuralism?"
REQUIRED READINGS:
M. Foucault. Technologies of the Self.
11.
A. Giddens. "Structuralism, poststructuralism and cultural production"
REQUIRED READINGS:
J.F. Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition.
12.
R. Koselleck. History and Hermeneutics.
REQUIRED READINGS:
H.G. Gadamer. "Language and understanding", in Truth and Method 2.
13.
J. Culler. On Deconstruction
REQUIRED READINGS:
J. Derrida. "Sign, event, context "; Force of law CHAPTER 1.
14
R. Rorty: Philosophy: End or transformation?
REQUIRED READINGS:
R. Rorty: Contingency, Irony and Solidarity
A. Badiou. Manifesto for Philosophy
