The Philosophy of Culture Course for the academic year 2024-2025 has the following title: CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE AND MODERN SUBJECTIVITY.
It aims to analytically and critically outline the following themes: A) Philosophical curtain 1. Culture, critical philosophy and dialectics of the concrete: between classic and contemporary. B) Philosophical curtain 2. The metamorphoses of the modern subject: the prism of consciousness and the writing of the ego in J.-J. Rousseau. C) Philosophical curtain 3. Western portrait. Through Paolo Volponi. Scenes of self-awareness, monological thought, philosophies of existence, puzzles of the human, anthropologies of thought of modernity: between nature and culture, memory and innovation, history and politics, poetry and literature, critical essays and sociology within and beyond the twentieth century.

PHILOSOPHICAL CURTAIN I
• The excess of the concrete. Portraits of critical philosophy.
• Criticism and its forms.
• In the heart of the present. Man as worldliness
• Thought, language and reason.
• The subject scene. Narratives of the Ego.
• The excess of the concrete. Critical philosophy and metaphysics.
• Fragment and limit: philosophy, time and life.
• Critical and political philosophy.
• Critical philosophy and music.
• PHILOSOPHICAL CURTAIN II
• Rousseau. The ontology of personal life.
• Self-portraits of the self.
• The life that is written.
• Self-awareness, solitude and community.
• Memory, oblivion and imagination.
• Modern intersubjectivity.
• The feeling of existing
• PHILOSOPHICAL CURTAIN III
• Philosophy and literature. Anthropologies of thought and feeling of existence. Through Volponi with passages on Leopardi, Pasolini, Morin and Sloterdijk.
• The human and the animal. Volponi and posthumanistic thought.
• Volponian curtain. Corporal, The irritable planet and the world of capital.
• Ecocritical Volponi. Volponi politician.
• Volponi in the year 2000. Critical reading exercises and philosophical rhapsodies: between Classical and Contemporary.
• Volponi and the problem of space (perceived or singular; conceived or general; experienced or particular as social space) between poetic and narrative writing.
• “The eagle and the little towers”. Volponi and The Ducal Curtain.

In relation to the discipline the student must show:
Knowledge and understanding skills:
- knowledge of the fundamental themes of the Philosophy of Culture set out in the lecture and deepened in the textbooks and understanding of its fundamental concepts in their cultural, philosophical, literary and political implications (see Educational objectives);
Knowledge of philosophical forms and cultural, historical, socio-political metamorphoses and dynamics exposed to lecture and deepened in textbooks and understanding of the processes that have shaped them.
- understanding the constituent elements of the relationship between culture, philosophy, leterature and politics and between modern and contemporary in relation to the subject matter covered and the programme carried out.
Applied knowledge and understanding:
- ability to orient themselves in cultural, philosophical, literay and political debate; modern and contemporary sociological and pedagogical and to understand the elements that today consolidate structurally the knowledge of the problems of the Philosophy of culture also in the educational and educational field.
Judgment autonomy (making judgements):
- ability to take an independent position on the main cultural, philosophical, historical-political and educational issues of the contemporary critical debate on the thought of the authors considered during the course and in the exam texts.
Communication skills:
- ability to communicate adequately what has been learned in the form of university-level study; ability to transmit and communicate the fundamental aspects and principles of the Philosophy of Culture embodied in its disciplinary relationship in basic educational work.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

During the course, to enrich the educational offer, interdisciplinary integrative seminars will be held by the holder of the chair Prof. Antonio De Simone and by the subject Dr. Davide D’Alessandro and Dr. Mauro Cascio. It is also planned during the course a meeting of studies whose methods and possibilities of implementation will be scheduled and communicated.

Teaching

Lectures, exercises and seminars scientific-didactic integrative

Attendance

The compulsory participation in the lessons by the students favors the development of logic and disciplinary learning methodologies.

Course books

-    ANTONIO DE SIMONE, L’eccedenza del concreto. Il pensiero possibile. Ritratti di filosofia critica, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2024.
-    ANTONIO DE SIMONE, Le affezioni dell’anima. Rousseau. Il prisma della coscienza e la scrittura dell’io, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia 2023.
-    ANTONIO DE SIMONE, Romanzo occidentale. Volponi e noi. Stenogrammi di filosofia, letteratura e politica, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2024.

Assessment

Oral exam.
The final assessment is expressed in thirtieth.
The assessment criteria and relative scores in thirtieth are determined on the following scale:
less than 18: sufficient level of competence. The candidate does not achieve any of the learning outcomes under "knowledge and understanding"
18-20: sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves the required learning outcomes under "knowledge and understanding".
21-23: Fully sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes set out in the points "knowledge and understanding" and "applied knowledge and understanding".
24-26: good competence level. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes foreseen in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "applied knowledge and understanding" and "judgement autonomy".
27-29: very good skill level. The candidate achieves the required learning outcomes in the areas of "knowledge and understanding", "applied knowledge and understanding", "independent judgement" and "communication skills".
30 and 30 and praise: excellent competence level. The candidate fully achieves the learning outcomes set out in the "knowledge and understanding" points; "applied knowledge and understanding skills"; "judgement autonomy"; "communication skills" and "learning ability".
Students who have registered their disability certification or DSA certification at the Office of Inclusion and Right to Study may ask to use concept maps (for keywords) during the exam.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam, to the teacher or teacher of the course, who will verify their consistency with the indications of the university guidelines and may request their modification.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Lectures, exercises and seminars scientific-didactic integrative

Attendance

The compulsory participation in the lessons by the students favors the development of logic and disciplinary learning methodologies.

Course books

-    ANTONIO DE SIMONE, L’eccedenza del concreto. Il pensiero possibile. Ritratti di filosofia critica, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2024.
-    ANTONIO DE SIMONE, Le affezioni dell’anima. Rousseau. Il prisma della coscienza e la scrittura dell’io, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia 2023.
-    ANTONIO DE SIMONE, Romanzo occidentale. Volponi e noi. Stenogrammi di filosofia, letteratura e politica, Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2024.

Assessment

Oral exam.
The final assessment is expressed in thirtieth.
The assessment criteria and relative scores in thirtieth are determined on the following scale:
less than 18: sufficient level of competence. The candidate does not achieve any of the learning outcomes under "knowledge and understanding"
18-20: sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves the required learning outcomes under "knowledge and understanding".
21-23: Fully sufficient level of competence. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes set out in the points "knowledge and understanding" and "applied knowledge and understanding".
24-26: good competence level. The candidate achieves the learning outcomes foreseen in the points "knowledge and understanding"; "applied knowledge and understanding" and "judgement autonomy".
27-29: very good skill level. The candidate achieves the required learning outcomes in the areas of "knowledge and understanding", "applied knowledge and understanding", "independent judgement" and "communication skills".
30 and 30 and praise: excellent competence level. The candidate fully achieves the learning outcomes set out in the "knowledge and understanding" points; "applied knowledge and understanding skills"; "judgement autonomy"; "communication skills" and "learning ability".
Students who have registered their disability certification or DSA certification at the Office of Inclusion and Right to Study may ask to use concept maps (for keywords) during the exam.
To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam, to the teacher or teacher of the course, who will verify their consistency with the indications of the university guidelines and may request their modification.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.