Checking date: 05/05/2020


Course: 2019/2020

Philosophy in History and Culture
(18363)
Bachelor in Cultural Studies (Plan: 435 - Estudio: 364)


Coordinating teacher: RIVERO OBRA, MERCEDES

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Basic Core
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Branch of knowledge: Arts and Humanities



Description of contents: programme
The aim of this subject is to know the great schools of thought modulating the culture. It should not be conceived as a history of philosophy, and rather as a history of the ideas and problems which have shaped primarily the culture. Philosophy intertwines with political criticism, literature, and art in general, contributing to create the historical experience of each moment and place. 1. The moral turn of Hellenism and the Roman Empire 2. The Baroque modernity and the concept of consciousness 3. Enlightenment as a civilization program 4. Romanticism as a program of cultural mediation 5. The linguistic turn 6. Existentialism 7. Critical Marxism 8. Postmodernism
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

Basic Bibliography
  • Aristotle. Ethics Nicomachean. Oxford University Press; Edition: Revised. 2009
  • Augustine of Hippo . Confessions. Oxford University Press; Edition: 1 . 2009
  • Barthes, Roland. Structuralist activity. Critical essays. 1972, pp. 213-20
  • Benjamin, Walter. On the Concept of History. 2009.
  • Benjamin, Walter. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Penguin UK. 2008
  • Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus. Vintage . 2018
  • Derrida, Jacques. . Signature event context. 1988.
  • Descartes, R. . Discourse on the Method. Perennial Press. 2018
  • Diderot, Denis. Rameau's Nephew. Open Book Publishers. 2016
  • Epictetus; Gill, C.. The discourses of Epictetus. JM Dent. 1995
  • Foucault, Michel. Words and Things. -.
  • Fraser, Alexander Campbell; Locke, John.. An essay concerning human understanding. 1985.
  • Fromm, Erich. Escape from freedom. Macmillan. 1994
  • Giddens, Anthony. Structuralism, Post-structuralism and the Production of Culture. Social theory today. 1987, p. 195-223
  • Habermas, Jürgen. The theory of communicative action. Beacon press. 1994
  • Heidegger, Martin. . Letter on humanism. 1947.
  • Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Routledge. 2016
  • Kant, Immanuel. What is Enlightenment? . Penguin UK. 2013
  • Lyotard, Jean-François. The postmodern condition: A report on knowledge. U of Minnesota Press. 1984
  • Montaigne, Michel de. Of cannibals. . The complete essays of Montaigne. 1958, p. 150-159
  • Rorty, Richard (ed.). The linguistic turn: Essays in philosophical method. University of Chicago Press. 1992
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; HÉDOUIN, Edmond. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. W. Glaisher. 1925
  • Russell, Bertrand. Power: A new social analysis. Routledge. 2004
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism is a Humanism. . Yale University Press. 2007
  • Schiller, Friedrich; Snell, Reginald. . On the aesthetic education of man. . Courier Corporation.. 2004
  • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. . Moral letters to Lucilius. . Aegitas. 2015
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig. . Philosophical investigations. . John Wiley & Sons. 2009

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.