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Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea magistrale in Scienze filosofiche - 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
12
B
M-FIL/03

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Foreign language: B2 level if 1st language, B1 CB TEST, if 2nd language
6
F
-
Compulsory Traineeship
6
F
-
Final exam
18
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
M-FIL/03
activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Foreign language: B2 level if 1st language, B1 CB TEST, if 2nd language
6
F
-
Compulsory Traineeship
6
F
-
Final exam
18
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
3 modules among the following
6
B
M-FIL/01
Between the years: 1°- 2°
1 module among the following
Between the years: 1°- 2°

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Teaching code

4S007330

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/01 - THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 24, 2018 al Nov 10, 2018.

To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link:  Course organization

Learning outcomes

The course aims at giving the conceptual, methodological and cultural grounds to promote a phenomenological inquiry on the affective experience and on the importance of emotional sharing for the relations of care, the individual formation (Bildung) and the foundation of social ontology.
In this course, crucial importance will be given to the role that desire plays in the relations of care and in the process of the human formation.

At the end of the course, students will have to prove: their adequate knowledge of the texts; critical assessment; to know how to communicate their knowledge in a clear, coherent and well-supported way; to know how to interact in the discussions with the professor and the other students.

Program

Inter-affectivity and inter-corporeality

Between 1909 and 1916 Max Scheler rewrote Kant’s transcendental aesthetics by means of Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics and founded a new phenomenology of corporeity.

In this course we will deal with the foundations of the phenomenology of corporeity starting from Jacob von Uexküll’s thesis on the relationship between organism and environment and from Max Scheler’s theory of direct perception of expressiveness (Ausdruck). Both issues are at the center of today’s phenomenological debate on the theory of primary intersubjectivity of Trevarthen and of the inter-corporeality of Merleau-Ponty (Gallagher, Zahavi, Fuchs).

In particular, we will try to reconstruct the origin of the phenomenological distinction between a lived body (Leib) and an object body (Körper) starting from the writings of Scheler published between 1912 and 1913 (with advance therefore on Husserl, who will publish Ideas II only later). A special attention will be paid to the second part of Formalismus (1916), which has been increasingly recognized as one of the major philosophical works of the twentieth century. This allows us to overcome the predominant understanding of the phenomenology of corporeity, focusing on the problem of expressive unity and emotional sharing.



Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Jacob von Uexküll Ambienti animali e ambienti umani Quodlibet 2010
G. Cusinato Biosemiotica e psicopatologia dell'ordo amoris. In dialogo con Max Scheler FrancoAngeli 2018
M. Scheler Il valore della vita emotiva Guerini 1999
Gallagher, Zahavi La mente fenomenologica Cortina 2009
M. Scheler Scritti fenomenologici  

Examination Methods

For attending students:
A personalized program will be set together at the beginning of the course.

For non-attending students:
The exam is in oral form and aims at verifying the adequate knowledge of the scheduled texts. In order to access the oral examination, students must submit a paper of 20000 characters. The paper must be previously agreed on with the professor during his office hours – after students have read the texts – and is to be submitted at least 7 days before the exam. The paper must be submitted via email, with a .doc document containing the student’s name, surname and identification number.

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