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Study Plan
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Laurea in Filosofia - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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Philosophy of language (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S00888
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
M-FIL/05 - PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY OF LANGUAGE
Period
Sem. 2A dal Feb 17, 2020 al Mar 28, 2020.
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:
The Leviathan and the Good Shepherd: Language, Power, and Subjectivity In Michel Foucault and Thomas Hobbes
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 subjectivity.
The course will analyze Foucault's archeological epistemology and his genealogical critique of the concept of sovereignty. This concept will be explained through Thomas Hobbes' thought, where a conventionalist theory of language serves as a premise to the justification of State sovereignty.
Methods:
Lectures based on reading and interpretation of the texts and discussions.
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Michel Foucault | La volontà di sapere: Storia della sessualità 1 | Feltrinelli | 2013 | Soltanto le pp. 7-48 e 119-142. Corrispondenti a: Prefazione all'edizione italiana, cap. I Noialtri vittoriani, cap. II L'ipotesi repressiva; cap. V Diritto di morte e potere sulla vita. | |
| Michel Foucault | Le parole e le cose: Un’archeologia delle scienze umane | BUR | 2016 | Soltanto le pp. 5-108; 302-345. Corrispondenti a: Prefazione, cap. I Le damigelle d'onore, cap. II La prosa del mondo, cap. III Rappresentare, par. 1 (Critica e commento) e par. 2 (La grammatica generale) del cap. IV Parlare; par. 4 (Bopp) e par. 5 (Il linguaggio divenuto oggetto) del cap. VIII Lavoro, vita e linguaggio, par. 1 (Il ritorno del linguaggio), par. 2 (Il posto del re), par. 3 (L'analitica della finitudine) e par. 4 (L'empirico e il trascendentale) del cap. IX L'uomo e i suoi duplicati. | |
| Lorenzo Bernini | Le pecore e il pastore: Critica, politica, etica nel pensiero di Michel Foucault | Liguori | 2008 | ||
| Thomas Hobbes | Leviatano | BUR | 2011 | Soltanto le pp. V-L, 3-50, 127-133, 168-196, corrispondenti a: introduzione di Carlo Galli (All'insegna del Leviatano: Potenza e destino del progetto politico moderno); Lettera dedicatoria (Al mio onorato amico M. Francis Godolphin di Godolphin), Introduzione, cap. I Del senso; cap. II Dell'immaginazione, cap. III Della conseguenza o serie di immaginazioni, cap. IV Della parola; cap. V Della ragione e della scienza; cap. XIII Della condizione naturale dell'umanità per quanto concerne la sua felicità e la sua miseria; cap. XVI Delle persone, degli autori e delle cose impersonate, cap. XVII Delle cause, della generazione e della definizione di uno stato, cap. XVIII Dei diritti dei sovrani per istituzione. |
Examination Methods
For both attending and non-attending students: oral exam (from June 2020 to February 2021).
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.
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, and in accordance with the University of Verona guidelines, during the 2020 summer session the assessment modality will be modified as follows: online oral exam.
