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What Is the World?

What Is the World?

Code	15572
Year	3
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Philosophy
Entry requirements	.
Learning outcomes	The question "What is the world?" does not have to demand an immediate answer; on the contrary, it invites one to assume from the outset the inquiring bid in which the question is played. In this sense, this course aims to stimulate the practice of philosophical questioning, through a fundamental theme of philosophy. At the end of the UC, the student should be able to: (i) identify issues concerning our being-in-the-world and being-in-the-world; (ii) make explicit the fundamental elements of the perspectives studied; (iii) discuss answers to the question "What is the world?"; (iv) problematize our being and being-in-the-world.
Syllabus	- World, narrative and meaning - To think the world is always to begin to transform it - The question of the World in Husserl's Phenomenology - Our House in Lévinas - In search of the original and sensible world - Ways of worldmaking - Disenchantment of the World and Reenchantment of Politics - World, Earth and Anthropocene - The Book, a World Project
Main Bibliography	Bejan, A. (2016). The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything. St. Martin's Press. Elish, E (1994) Poema babilónico de la creación (trad. esp. Lara Peinado), Madrid: Trotta. Ernout, A e Meillet, A (1967) Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Latine. Paris: Klincksieck. Levinas (1980) "A Moradia". In Totalidade e Infinito. Lisboa: Edições 70. Latour, B (2020) “We Don't Seem to Live on the Same Planet. Latour, B., Weibel, P. (2020) Critical Zones. Ca, Mass: MIT Press. Husserl, E (1962). Die Krisis der europäischen Wissenschaften und die transzendentale Phänomenologie. InHusserliana, VI, Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff. Ponty, M. (1996) Fenomenologia da Percepção. São Paulo: Martins Fontes. Goodman, N (1978) Ways of worldmaking. Hackett Publishing. Homero (2018). Odisseia. Lisboa: Quetzal; [Penélope] cantos I-II, XIX, XXIII. Max Weber (2013), La Domination, La Découverte, Paris, pp. 269-364. Blumenberg, H. (2000) La Legibilidad del mundo. Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós Ibérica.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.