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Laurea in Filosofia - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

1° Year

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One course to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB Test)
6
E
-

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2017/2018

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
M-FIL/02
One course to be chosen among the following
One course to be chosen among the following
One course to be chosen among the following
6
C
M-PSI/06

3° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One/two courses to be chosen among the following
6
C
M-PSI/06
Prova finale
6
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
One course to be chosen among the following
Foreign language B1 (CB Test)
6
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Between the years: 1°- 2°- 3°
Stage or Laboratories
6
F
-

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Teaching code

4S02153

Coordinator

Lorenzo Bernini

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/05 - PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY OF LANGUAGE

Period

Sem. IIA dal Feb 26, 2018 al Apr 21, 2018.

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing examples of the contribution contemporary philosophy has made to the understanding:
- of the functioning of language,
- of the relation between language, material reality and social reality.
At the end of the course, students will have to prove that they:
- accurately know the subjects of the program,
- are able to expose them in a consequential and concise way,
- have acquired an independent judgement.

Program

Course title: Words, Things, Subjectivites

Course content:
Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of the XXth Century, has changed our way of doing philosophy. He was a multifaceted intellectual whose interests ranged from history and literary criticism to epistemology and political philosophy. All his work is traversed by a reflection on the relation between language, reality and subjectivities. Aim of this seminar is to account for such reflection and the way in which it connects to the three stages of his theoretical journey: that is, the archaeological , the genealogical and the ethical phases.

Methods: Seminar classes, topic discussions.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Foucault, Michel Discorso e verità nella Grecia antica Donzelli 2005 Soltanto le pp. 3-13; 59-114. Corrispondenti a: capitolo I Significato ed evoluzione della parola parresia; capitolo IV La parresia e la cura di sé; Osservazioni conclusive.
Michel Foucault La volontà di sapere: Storia della sessualità 1 Feltrinelli 2013 Soltanto le pp. 7-48. Corrispondenti a: Prefazione all'edizione italiana; capitolo I Noialtri vittoriani; capitolo II L'ipotesi repressiva.
Michel Foucault Le parole e le cose: Un’archeologia delle scienze umane BUR 2016 Soltanto le pp. 5-108; 302-345; 366-372; 399-413. Corrispondenti a: Prefazione; capitolo I Le damigelle d'onore; capitolo II La prosa del mondo; capitolo III Rappresentare; paragrafo 1 (Critica e commento) e paragrafo 2 (La grammatica generale) del capitolo IV Parlare; paragrafo 4 (Bopp) e paragrafo 5 (Il linguaggio divenuto oggetto) del capitolo VIII Lavoro, vita e linguaggio; paragrafo 1 (Il ritorno del linguaggio), paragrafo 2 (Il posto del re), paragrafo 3 (L'analitica della finitudine) e paragrafo 4 (L'empirico e il trascendentale) del capitolo IX L'uomo e i suoi duplicati; paragrafo 1 (Il triedro dei saperi), 5 (Psicanalisi, etnologia) e 6 del capitolo X Le scienze umane.
Lorenzo Bernini Le pecore e il pastore: Critica, politica, etica nel pensiero di Michel Foucault Liguori 2008

Examination Methods

For both attending and non-attending students: oral exam (from June 2018 to February 2019).
Students are required to bring the readings at the exam.
The evaluation will be based on:
- pertinence of the answers,
- consequentiality of the arguments,
- ability to think in a personal and independent way.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE