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For a history of practical imagination (Ordinario)

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
50
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
40
Number of hours of supplementary teaching
10
CFU 6
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Modalità esame

oral exam (1st year); seminar, or final paper.

Note modalità di esame

Attendance is mandatory and will be evaluated in the final grade. Likewise, participation in class discussion and weekly readings will be part of the final grade, as per the 'Goals of the course'.

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Prerequisiti

The first part of the course is specially designed for BA students and will take place in November and December.

The second part will be for both undergrads and graduate students and will take place from February 16 to early April.


In this second part undergraduate students (from the second year on) interested in giving a seminar presentation on philosophers of their choice will be able to do so, provided the topic has been agreed upon with the instructor. Among examples of possible seminar topics are Montaigne, Pascal, Hume, Smith; in phenomenology, Stein, Schütz, Sartre, Marcuse; in psychoanalysis, Freud; in political philosophy, the theme of utopia (e.g., in More, Campanella, Fourier, Swift).

Programma

We will read some select writings on the history of practical imagination. Among them, Aristotle's De anima and De memoria, Hobbes' Leviathan, Rousseau's Second Discourse, and Kant's Conjectures on the beginnings of human history

Obiettivi formativi

The goal is to acquire the skills to interrogate and work on texts and to develop a co-operative interaction in a seminar-style discussion


Riferimenti bibliografici

The texts for this course include:


Aristotele, L'anima, a cura di G. Movia, Loffredo 1979

Aristotele, Il movimento degli animali, a cura di P. Giuffrida, Mimesis 2014

Aristotele, Memoria e reminiscenza, a cura di G. Nastasi, IISF Press

T. Hobbes, Leviatano, a cura di A. Pacchi, Laterza 1991

J.J. Rousseau, Scritti politici, vol. 1, a cura di E. Garin, Laterza 1971

I. Kant, Scritti di storia, politica e diritto, a cura di F. Gonnelli, Laterza 1995

A. Ferrarin, Un mondo non di questo mondo. La realtà delle immagini e l'immaginazione, ETS 2023

Moduli

Modulo Ore CFU Docenti
Modulo 1: Per una storia dell'immaginazione pratica (per ordinari) 20 3 Alfredo Ferrarin
Modulo 2: Per una storia dell'immaginazione pratica (per ordinari e PhD) 20 3 Alfredo Ferrarin
Supplementary Teaching 10 0 Stefano Franchini, Alberto Zali
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