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Philosophy and Culture

Code 16968
Year 2
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Philosophy
Entry requirements n.a.
Learning outcomes This UC aims, in general terms: 1. to stimulate the taste for new themes, new authors, and new learning; to foster the ability to analyze and synthesize, critical thinking, autonomous thinking, and originality in approaches to emerging problems in Culture
In specific terms, it intends: 1. to determine the notions of «Philosophy» and «Culture» and some models of the relationship between them (critical, dialectic, mimetic, ancillary, justification, fragmentary, dispute, and others); 2. to recognize and justify the ambiguity and impossibility of a univocal concept of Culture; to problematize the relationship between Knowledge and Power from the processes of Antigone and Socrates, the Kantian Aufklärung, and the Nazi concentration camps; 4. at the end, the student must write a study summary of a research project.
Syllabus Introduction: around the designation Philosophy and Culture
1) Philosophy and Culture
a) What are the origins of philosophy; b) Culture and Human.
2) Philosophy and City
a) Knowledge as an antidogmatic and critical dialectic enterprise; b) Orality versus philosophical writing.
3) Modernity and Culture
a) Requirements of the Enlightenment; b) Objections to the Enlightenment.
4) Culture, Barbarism, Crisis. a) (After) Auschwitz Barbarism? b) Culture and simulation.
Conclusion: Notes for a redefinition of contemporary culture.
Main Bibliography ANTUNES, M., «Cultura», in Obra Completa, Tomo I - Theoria: Cultura e Civilização, Vol. IV: História da Cultura (86-90). FCG, 2005.
BAUDRILLARD, J., Cultura y simulacro, Editorial Kairós, 1978.
BLOOM, A., A Cultura Inculta. Ensaio sobre o declínio da cultura geral. Europa-América, 1990.
HUNTINGTON, S. P., The Clash of Civilizations: and the Remake of the World. Simon & Schuste, 2002.
JASPERS, K., Iniciação Filosófica, Guimarães Editores, 1987.
KANT, I., Resposta à pergunta: «O que é o Iluminismo?» (trad. port. Artur Morão). LusoSofia, Biblioteca On-line de Filosofia e Cultura, 2017
LEVI, P., Se isto é um homem? Rocco, 1988.
PLATÃO. Apologia de Sócrates, (trad. port. J. T. Santos), IN-CM, Lisboa, 1993.
SÓFOCLES, Antígona, FCG, Lisboa, 2018-
STEINER, G.. No Castelo do Barba Azul. Alguma Notas para a Redifinição da Cultura. Relógio d'Água.
SUBIRATS, E., La cultura como espectáculo. Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2025-01-06

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