Unit THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY
- Course
- Philosophy and psychological science and techniques
- Study-unit Code
- 40990406
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Giancarlo Marchetti
- Teachers
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- Giancarlo Marchetti
- Hours
- 36 ore - Giancarlo Marchetti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline filosofiche
- Academic discipline
- M-FIL/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course will present the thought of “Early” Nietzsche in the light of his aesthetics views. In this respect, the key concepts of The Birth of Tragedy will be analyzed.
- Reference texts
- A. SCOPENHAUER, Sulla musica, Alboversorio
F. NIETZSCHE, La nascita della tragedia, Einaudi.
Two book must be chosen among:
C. Piazzesi, Nietzsche, Carocci limitatamente ai capp. II-III-IV
L. Boi, Nietzsche e i Greci, IISF, Napoli 2022 (limitatamente alle pp. 11-74 e 103-147.
P.DANIELS, , pp. 7-47.
Nietzsche and "The Birth of Tragedy", Acumen, Durham 2013.
D. Burnham - M. Jesinghausen, Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy: A Reader's Guide, Continuum 2010M.
S. Silk , J. P. Stern, Nietzsche on Tragedy, Cambridge University Press 2016 - Educational objectives
- This teaching aims to provide to the students basic knowledge of Nietzsche's tought and of the philosophers with whom it is compared. The main knowledge that students will acquire is knowledge of the theoretical core and the most significant passages of the topics covered and the acquisition of critical judgment.
students must develop learning and communication skills - Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand the course, students must have the basic notions of contemporary philosophical thought.
This precondition is valid both for attending and not attending students - Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
Lectures face-to-face will deal with the issues related to the interpretation of texts read - Other information
- Frequency of lessons: Optional.
- Learning verification modality
- The examination includes only the final oral test consisting of a discussion-interview on the topics discussed during the course and examined in-depth through recommended texts.The text aims at assuring the level of knowledge and critical understanding, as well as synthesis achieved by the student. Moreover, this interview, verify that the student is able to communicate, with method, linguistic-philosophical appropriateness, and exposure, what he has acquired. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the test itself.
In case a student intends to anticipate his/her exam in a year preceding the one it is scheduled in his/her curriculum, it is recommended to anticipate as well the attendance of the lessons and to schedule the exam in the first useful session after the lessons have been concluded. - Extended program
- Nietzsche and Grecity in the Consciousness of the West. For Nietzsche, the confrontation with Greece is an essential and revealing point of the self-understanding of modern man.