Teaching code

4S007330

Teacher

Guido Cusinato

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 25, 2023 al Nov 4, 2023.

Courses Single

Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

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Program

This year’s course is dedicated to the philosophical assumptions of psychopathology. To address this issue, we will consider a phenomenology of corporeality and feeling, and on this basis, we will address the problem of disorders of the ordo amoris, which is the organ that enactively produces our existential form. The main reference author is the German phenomenologist Max Scheler (1874-1928).
The following is the indicative and tentative schedule of lectures. Each lesson will explore a particular concept:
Lecture 1 Presentation of the syllabus and examination mode. Assumptions of the philosophical approach. Concept of the day: Metabolism and emergentism.
Lecture 2 Beyond reductionism. The concept of organism as a schema of freedom in Schelling. Concept of the Day: Intentionality and phenomenology.
Lecture 3 At the origins of the phenomenology of corporeality: the Leib and Körper distinction in Husserl and Scheler. Concept of the day: Scheler’s phenomenology.
Lecture 4 The two phases of the theory of corporeality in Scheler. Concept of the day: body schema.
Lecture 5 Body and environment: Uexküll and the ecological theory of perception. Concept of the day: biosemiotics.
Lecture 6 The origins of enactivism: the theory of embodied phantasy in Scheler. Concept of the day: enactivism.
Lecture 7 What is a hallucination and why is this issue important for a theory of perception? The relationship between phantasy and sensation in Aristotle. Concept of the day: solitary confinement.
Lecture 8 What is feeling? The connection between feeling, life, and the expressive plane. Concept of the day: expressiveness.
Lecture 9 What are emotions for? Ordo carnis, ordo socialis, and ordo amoris. Concept of the day: ordo amoris.
Lecture 10 Psychopathology as a disturbance of the feeling of the personal center. Concept of the day: personal singularity. Concept of the day: Scheler and the origin of psychopathology.
Lecture 11 Psychopathology and ordo amoris as the enactive center of existential form. Concept of the day: anthropogenesis.
Lecture 12 Three specific cases: the modus vivendi of individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder, melancholia, and schizophrenia.

Two texts are to be brought to the examination. One chosen from the following group:
- 1) W. Blankenburg, La perdita dell'evidenza naturale, Raffaello Cortina 1998.
-2) G. Cusinato, Biosemiotica e psicopatologia dell'ordo amoris. In dialogo con Max Scheler, FrancoAngeli 2018.
- 3) E. Minkowsky, La schizofrenia, Einaudi 1997.
- 4) F. Toccafondi, Max Scheler, Mimesis 2023.

Also one of these three:
- A. Kolany, Il disgusto, Marinotti 2017.
- J. von Uexküll, Ambienti animali e ambienti umani, Quodlibet 2013.
- Marguerite A. Sechehaye, Diario di una schizofrenica, Giunti Editore 2006.

For non-attending students, listening to video recordings is compulsory.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Only part of the lectures will be video-recorded and made available on Moodle. However, an organic and coherent series of recordings will be devised, also incorporating material from other lectures and conferences, in order to provide non-attending students with an adequate introduction to the course. Knowledge of the topics covered in the lecture is an integral part of the syllabus to be brought to the examination also for non-attending students.

Learning assessment procedures

The assessment of learning outcomes requires to pass an oral examination. The subject of the examination will be the texts chosen from those in the syllabus and the topics addressed in the lecture. Non-attending students will refer to the video recordings.
A written paper, intended as a writing exercise, can also be brought to the oral examination. The paper will be counted with a mark from 0 to 2, which will be added to the mark for the oral examination. The paper, of approximately 20,000 characters (3000 words/10 pages), must be submitted by e-mail at least five days before the discussion. In Word, the file must be labelled with your SURNAME, NAME, and TEACHING TITLE. The paper should be considered a reasoned list of the parts of the texts in the programme that have touched you most or that have otherwise aroused your interest. The latter should be placed in inverted commas indicating the page number to avoid confusion between one's comments and the quotations. The paper's final part should be devoted to a short chapter of 'Personal Reflection' of a couple of pages in which you can refer to your own experience or other texts. It is advisable to send the teacher an initial version of the paper for initial feedback.

Evaluation criteria

In the evaluation of the exam, the following will be considered in particular: 1) possession of a thorough knowledge of the main themes of the program texts elaborated during the course (points 12/30); 2) the ability to argue and develop an autonomous and original reflection about the theoretical implications of these themes (points 12/30; 3) competence in the specialized vocabulary (points 6/30).

Exam language

Italiano

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