28013 - History of Philosophy (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide general and at the same time in-depth knowledge of the history of modern and contemporary philosophical thought. The lessons will focus on specific themes, contextualising their analysis in the context of long-term traditions. The aim of the course is to put the student in a position to face the reading of classical texts independently and to orient himself among the main interpretative and historiographical lines.

Course contents

The form of reason

The course will examine some influential conceptualizations of «reason» (of its configurations, functions and prerogatives and its limits) in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth-century German philosophy.

In particular, criticism and Kantian philosophy of history will be examined; the Hegelian philosophy of history and law; the Feuerbachian critique of Hegel and the Schopenhauerian philosophy of the will; the Nietzschean critique of rationalism and the Marxian theory of dialectics.

 

Class schedule and locations

Monday, 3-5 pm, classroom I, via Zamboni, 38

Tuesday, 3-5 pm, classroom IV, via Zamboni, 38

Wednesday, 3-5 pm, classroom I, via Zamboni, 38

 

Starting date of the lectures

September 19, 2022

Readings/Bibliography

1. Basic texts

L. Feuerbach, Principi della filosofia dell’avvenire, Einaudi, Torino 1971

L. Feuerbach, L’essenza del cristianesimo, Feltrinelli, Milano 1994

G.W.F. Hegel, Lineamenti di filosofia del diritto. Diritto naturale e scienza dello Stato, Bompiani, Milano 2006

G.W.F. Hegel, Lezioni sulla filosofia della storia, a cura di G. Bonacina e L. Sichirollo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2010

I. Kant, Critica della ragione pura

I. Kant, Scritti di storia politica e diritto, a cura di F. Gonnelli, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2015

K. Marx, Opere filosofiche giovanili, a cura di G. Della Volpe, Editori Riuniti, Roma 1963

K. Marx, Manoscritti economico-filosofici, a cura d N. Bobbio, Einaudi, Torino 1980

K. Marx – F. Engels, L’ideologia tedesca 

F. Nietzsche, La nascita della tragedia, Adelphi, Milano 1983

F. Nietzsche, La gaia scienza, a cura di Carlo Gentili, Einaudi, Torino 2015

A. Schopenhauer, Sulla quadruplice radice del principio di ragion sufficiente, Rizzoli (Bur), Milano 2000

A. Schopenhauer, Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione

 

2. For the exam

2.1. Institutional part: history of modern and contemporary philosophy

For the purposes of the examination, the knowledge of the fundamental authors of the history of modern and contemporary philosophy: Bruno, Machiavelli, Bacone, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Montesquieu, Vico, Hume, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Croce, Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Lukács, la Scuola di Francoforte, Foucault, Arendt.

Students can use the manual they prefer or already have, checking that all the authors included in the above list are adequately covered and, if necessary, integrating it with other manuals.

Those who have already taken the exam of History of  Philosophy with Prof. Francesco Cerrato do not have to take the exam on this part of the program.

2.2. Monographic part

2.2.1. Texts commented in class (at the end of the course made available online in Teaching materials)

2.2.2. One classic text to be chosen from the basic texts above indicated in this bibliography

2.2.3. Secondary literature (two of your choice)

K. Löwith, Da Hegel a Nietzsche: la frattura rivoluzionaria nel pensiero del secolo XIX, Einaudi, Torino 1949

G. Lukács, La distruzione della ragione, Einaudi, Torino 1959

G. Lukács, Il giovane Hegel e i problemi della società capitalistica, Einaudi, Torino 1960

M. Dal Pra, La dialettica in Marx, Laterza, Bari 1965

G. Lukács, Storia e coscienza di classe, SugarCo, Milano 1974

E. Bloch, Soggetto-oggetto. Commento a Hegel, il Mulino, Bologna 1975

R. Bodei, Sistema ed epoca in Hegel, il Mulino, Bologna, 1975

E. Weil, Problemi kantiani, QuattroVenti, Urbino 1976

E. Weil, Hegel e lo Stato e altri scritti hegeliani, Guerini, Milano 1988

G. Bonacina, Storia universale e filosofia del diritto. Commento a Hegel, Guerini, Milano 1989

G. Invernizzi, Il pessimismo tedesco dell'Ottocento, La Nuova Italia, Firenze-Milano 1994

A. Burgio, Strutture e catastrofi. Kant Hegel Marx, Editori Riuniti, Roma 2000

C. Gentili, Nietzsche, il Mulino, Bologna 2001

R. Fineschi, Marx e Hegel. Contributi a una rilettura, Carocci, Roma 2006

A. Burgio (a cura di), Dialettica. Tradizioni, problemi, sviluppi, Quodlibet, Macerata 2007

S. Giametta, Schopenhauer e Nietzsche, Il Prato, Padova 2008

M. Montinari, Che cosa ha detto Nietzsche, Adelphi, Milano 2008

M. Segala, Schopenhauer, la filosofia, le scienze, Ed. della Normale, Pisa 2009

A. Burgio, Gramsci. Il sistema in movimento, DeriveApprodi, Roma 2014

A. Burgio, Il sogno di una cosa. Per Marx, DeriveApprodi, Roma 2018

 

The program is the same for attending and non-attending students. Thus, for everyone, the exam interview will also focus on the subject covered in class.

 

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures with discussion in class of the crucial issues.

Assessment methods

The final oral exam focuses on the program’s material.

It usually takes place at the Professor’s office (via Zamboni, 38 - 5.08).

The evaluation considers the degree of learning of the fundamental notions, the level of the argumentative competence, expressive property and the critical skills of candidates.

On the basis of these parameters an overall evaluation in thirtieths is expressed, according to the following judgment criteria:

18-21 Sufficient

22-25 Average

26-28 Good-Very Good

29-30 Excellent.

Teaching tools

The lectures will be regularly recorded and will be available by accessing the Teams classroom created ad hoc. Access will be possible through the unibo institutional credentials by connecting to the link available since 19 September in the virtual materials of the course.

A series of online lessons (Teams) aimed at providing basic grammatical and syntactic knowledge useful for a first orientation in the German philosophical text is offered by Dr. Manuel Fiori; attendance of this short literacy course in the German language is optional and not subject to verification during the exam.

Office hours

See the website of Alberto Burgio