Teaching code

4S00985

Teacher

Nicola Turrini

Coordinator

Nicola Turrini

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 26, 2022 al Nov 5, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

Hermeneutics
The principal aim of the course is to give an adequate understanding of what philosophical hermeneutics properly is. Hermeneutics is usually understood as the discipline and art of interpretation. This type of hermeneutics arises from the exegesis of sacred and humanistic texts, which follows the rediscovery of Greek civilization with the Italian Renaissance and the free reading of the Bible with the German Reformation. The theory of interpretation is a variety of philological and religious hermeneutics, it is a tool for understanding the written text and the dogmatic subjectivity. Instead, properly philosophical hermeneutics is not a theory of interpretation and has nothing to do with text and language. Philosophical hermeneutics was born in the twentieth century with Husserl - which defines phenomenology as a “hermeneutics of conscious life” – and with Heidegger, for whom the exercise of philosophy is a “hermeneutics of facticity”, i.e. the understanding existence has of itself. Such hermeneutics is not “interpretation” but “explication” and “unfolding” (Auslegung), i.e. spontaneous articulation of being, an event that precedes language and in which Being unfolds and participates in all possible ways of being.
At the end of the course, students will be able to follow the twisting paths of 20th century hermeneutics with greater awareness and agility, thus enhancing their knowledge of contemporary philosophical debate. They will have the capacity to autonomously comprehend texts and subjects addressed during the course, to employ a proper philosophical terminology, to communicate philosophical topics with specialists and non-specialists, and the ability to to continue studies at a MA level.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No prerequisites are required.

Program

COSMOGRAMS. SEMIOTICS AND COSMOLOGY IN C.S. PEIRCE The course aims to investigate the project of a “universal writing” in the pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce. In particular, the relationship between Peircian semiotics - understood as the theory of signs and their interpretation - and the cosmological instance that emerges in the last period of the American philosopher's reflection will be discussed. In the first part of the course the famous triadic theory of the sign will be investigated, as the main logical and hermeneutic tool, through the triads Firstness-Secondness-Thirdness and icon-index-symbol. In the second part of the course the integral extension of the theory of the sign to the universe will be analyzed, with particular attention to key notions such as "phaneroscopy", "synechism" and "tychism". The aim of the course will be to show the speculative and hermeneutic significance of the idea of a "universe writing" in which the "kosmos" itself "is written" and strengthened.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course will develop through lectures in which the Peircian texts under study will be commented directly. Peircian theories will also be considered starting from case studies to show the operational and applicative potential of his semiotic theory. For attending students, in addition to the texts indicated in the bibliography, an active and participatory presence in the lessons is to be considered an integral part of the course. All lessons will be recorded and will be available on the Moodle page of the course. The texts indicated in the bibliography are purely indicative; the pages to be studied will be indicated during the lessons.

Learning assessment procedures

For all students, attending and non-attending, the test will consist of an oral exam that will focus on the entire program. Alternatively, it is possible to take the exam through the discussion of a paper of 25,000 characters, to be delivered at least one week before the chosen exam; the topic of the thesis must be previously discussed with the teacher. Non-attending students are invited to arrange a reception with the teacher for an orientation interview in view of the exam.

Evaluation criteria

To pass the exam, students must demonstrate that they: - possess a sufficient command of the themes, conceptual tools, reflective paths presented by the texts in the exam bibliography; - possess the ability to retrace and re-elaborate the texts in the bibliography in a sufficiently rigorous and subjectivated manner.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final grade of the oral exam will be expressed out of thirty.

Exam language

Italiano