Contemporary Thought
Objectives
Conceptualize the key concepts of modernity as well as their contemporary evolution
Discern the major role played by technoscientific rationality in our contemporary comprehension of social and personal worlds
Discern, by way of analysis of representative philosophical, literary and film works, the complex connections between the objective understanding of the world and its subjective apprehension
Approach contemporary culture in acts of critical appropriation encompassing strategies of conceptual and axiological understanding
Contextualize phenomena of contemporary culture in a diachronic, dynamic perspective
General characterization
Code
10996
Credits
3.0
Responsible teacher
José Luís Toivola Câmara Leme
Hours
Weekly - 2
Total - 70
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
For students who are at least in their second year of university studies.
Bibliography
Alexis de Tocqueville, Da democracia na América. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, 2008.
Amartya Sem, Identidade e violência. Lisboa: Tinta da China, 2007.
Amin Maalouf, As identidades assassinas. Lisboa: Difel, 2002.
Francis Fukuyama, Identidades. Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2018.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, A grande migração. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, 1998.
Michael Sandel, A tirania do mérito. Lisboa: Presença, 2022.
Roger Eatwell & Matthew Goodwin, Populismo. Porto Salvo: Edições Saída de emergência, 2019.
Zygmunt Bauman, Retrotopia. RJ: Zahar, 2017.
Teaching method
1. Theoretical presentation of syllabi contents and respective debate.
2. Debate on the topic of the reviews.
3. Presentation in the classroom of a team work.
Evaluation method
Please speak directly with the teacher of this seminar.
Subject matter
1.Tocqueville and the democratic revolution
2. Identity, culture and the dialectics of recognition.
3. Society, community and authenticity.
4. Honor, dignity and merit.
5. History, memory and retrotopia.
6. nationalism, migration and the myth of the great replacement.
Programs
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