THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

FS4010

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ARDOVINO Adriano

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

171

Prerequisites:

No prerequisites.

Objectives

The course contributes to the broader educational objective of the BA by providing the conceptual tools suitable for understanding the language and basic problems of contemporary philosophical-theoretical research, with a privileged (but not exclusive) reference to the phenomenological-hermeneutic and post-structuralist approach. The student will acquire: basic knowledge of topics and texts; ability to memorize and understand principles and theories; ability to perform speculative analysis and exercise a wide critical commentary; argumentative and descriptive skills in reconstructing and discussing topics and texts; ability to define and use the fundamental structures of philosophical discourse; suitable basic vocabulary. Further skills: autonomy of judgment (understanding theses and debates; orientation in theoretical issues; connection of ideas and concepts in different traditions; use of critical tools for the framing of main themes); communication skills (ability to expose analyzes in an effective and orderly manner; mastery, integration and development of the philosophical vocabulary applied to the analysis of the fundamental features of contemporary world).

Contents

Main topics of the course: language and paradox; writing and discourse; world and reality; truth and time; models and definitions of philosophy of literature.

Extended Syllabus

Course topics: introduction to David Foster Wallace; paradox and logic of discourse; discursive practices, statements and rules of formation; truth, representation, world; perception, experience, language; narration, imagination, intersubjectivity; philosophy and literature.
Textbooks:
- D. Foster Wallace, Oblivion, Little, Brown and Company
- A. Ardovino, D. den Dulk, P. Masiero (eds.), David Foster Wallace between Philosophy and Literature, Manchester University Press, or (alternatively): G. Agamben, The Fire and the Tale, Stanford University Press

Recommended Bibliography

Textbooks:
- D. Foster Wallace, Oblivion, Little, Brown and Company
- A. Ardovino, D. den Dulk, P. Masiero (eds.), David Foster Wallace between Philosophy and Literature, Manchester University Press, or (alternatively) G. Agamben, The Fire and the Tale, Stanford University Press

Suggested reading and resources:
A.
- M. Boswell, Understanding David Foster Wallace, The University of South Carolina Press
- M. Boswell, S.J. Burn (eds.), A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies, Palgrave Macmillan
- R. Clare (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace, Cambridge University Press
- D.T. Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, Viking
- D.T. Max, Ogni storia d’amore è una storia di fantasmi. Vita di David Foster Wallace, Einaudi
B.
- K. Bolger, S. Korb (eds.), Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy, Bloomsbury
- M. Boswell (ed.), David Foster Wallace and “The Long Thing”: New Essays on the Novel, Bloomsbury
- M. Boswell, The Wallace Effect. David Foster Wallace and Contemporary Literary Imagination, Bloomsbury
- S.M. Cahn, M. Eckert (eds.), Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace, Columbia University Press
- G. Carlisle, “Good Old Neon” in Id., Nature’s Nightmare. Analyzing David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion, Sideshow Media Group Press
- A. Den Dulk, Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature, Bloomsbury
- C. Hayes-Brady, The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace. Language, Identity and Resistance, Bloomsbury
- D. Hering, David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, Bloomsbury, London – New York 2016.
- A.S. Miller, The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction (New Directions in Religion and Literature), Bloomsbury
- B. Pire, P.-L. Patoine (eds.), David Foster Wallace. Presences of the Other, Sussex Academic Press
- J. Redgate, Wallace and I. Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction, Routledge
- C. Scarlato, Attraverso il corpo. Filosofia e letteratura in David Foster Wallace, Mimesis
- J. Severs, David Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books: Fiction of Value, Columbia University Press
- P. Sloane, David Foster Wallace and the Body, Routledge
- L. Thompson, Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature, Bloomsbury
C.
- C. Barbero, Filosofia della letteratura, Carocci
- R. Barthes, Il brusio della lingua, Einaudi
- S. Cavell, La riscoperta dell’ordinario, Carocci
- J. Derrida, La scrittura e la differenza, Jaca Book
- J. Derrida, Passioni. L'offerta obliqua, Jaca Book
- J. Derrida, Acts of Literature, Routledge
- M. Foucault, Scritti letterari, Feltrinelli
- M. Foucault, La grande straniera. A proposito di letteratura, Cronopio
- M. Foucault, L’ordine del discorso, Einaudi
- M. Foucault, L’archeologia del sapere, Rizzoli
- M. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Routledge
- M. Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature, University of Minnesota Press
- G. Genette, Figure III. Discorso del racconto, Einaudi
- G. Genette, Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, Cornell University Press
- K. Hamburger, La logica della letteratura, Pendragon
- W. Iser, L’atto della lettura, Il Mulino
- W. Iser, The Act of Reading, ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press
- E. John, D. McIver Lopes (eds.), Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings: An Anthology, Blackwell
- P. Lamarque, The Philosophy of Literature, Blackwell
- T. Moi, Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell,‎ University of Chicago Press
- M. Piazza, Alle frontiere tra filosofia e letteratura, Guerini
- J.-M. Rabaté (ed.), After Derrida: Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century, Cambridge University Press
- R. Rorty, La filosofia dopo la filosofia, Laterza
- R. Rorty, La filosofia e lo specchio della natura, Bompiani
- R. Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton University Press
- F.K. Stanzel, A Theory of Narrative, Cambridge University Press
- L. Wittgenstein, Ricerche filosofiche, Einaudi
- L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Blackwell

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Frontal lectures.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

An oral exam of variable duration will take place, during which knowledge, skills and competences will be tested, in order to assess the achievement of the learning objectives and expected outcomes. The exam will consist of questions on course contents, and of a critical-textual analysis.
Students may take the exam in English. Italian textbooks are therefore to be replaced by: D. Foster Wallace, Oblivion, Little, Brown and Company; G. Agamben, The Fire and the Tale, Stanford University Press.

Contacts/More Information

Although not mandatory, class attendance is strongly advised. Students who do not attend at least 70% of the lectures will be asked to read an additional book, which can be freely selected among the recommended ones. For any further information and thesis acceptance procedure: adriano.ardovino@unich.it. Orientation and tutoring in English is available. - If Health Laws and University regulations allow, teaching activities, teachers office hours’, and exams may take place online (in whole or in part). For any further information and updates, please refer to the University website.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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