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Learning outcomes |
This UC aims
1. in general terms
• stimulate the taste for new themes, new authors and new learning
• foster the ability to analyze and synthesize, critical thinking, autonomous thinking, originality in approaches to emerging problems in Culture
2. in specific terms
• determine the notions of «Philosophy» and «Culture» and some models of relationship between them (critical, dialectic, mimetic, ancillary, justification, fragmentary, dispute and others)
• recognize and justify the ambiguity and impossibility of a univocal concept of Culture
• problematize the relationship between Knowledge and Power from the processes of Antigone and Socrates, the Kantian Aufklärung, and the Nazi concentration camps
• at the end the student must write a study summary of a research project.
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Main Bibliography |
ANTUNES Manuel, «Cultura», in Obra Completa, Tomo I - Theoria: Cultura e Civilização, Vol. IV: História da Cultura, FCG, Lisboa, 2005, pp. 86-90;
BAUDRILLARD Jean, Cultura y simulacro, Editorial Kairós, Barcelona, 1978
BLOOM Alan, A Cultura Inculta. Ensaio sobre Declínio da Mente Americana, E-A, Lisboa, 1990.
HUNTINGTON Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Simon & Schuster, London, 2002.
JASPERS Karl, Iniciação Filosófica, Guimarães Editores, Lisboa, 1987.
KANT Immanuel, Resposta à pergunta: «O que é o Iluminismo?», (trad. port. Artur Morão), LusoSofia, Covilhã, 2009.
PLATÃO, Apologia de Sócrates, (trad. port. J. T. Santos), IN-CM, Lisboa, 1993
STEINER Georges, No Castelo do Barba Azul. Alguma Notas, Lisboa, Relóg
SUBIRATS Eduardo, La cultura como espectáculo, México, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988.
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