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Charles University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (BA Module + Erasmus students) Daniele De Santis - Daniil Koloskov Office hours: Wednesday 15:00-16:00 (De Santis); Wednesday 12:00-13:00 (Koloskov) Email: daniele.desantis@ff.cuni.cz dankol.94@mail.ru Philosophies and Phenomenologies of Praxis (Wednesday 9:10-10:45) Room: P225 1. General Description and Aims of the Module The present class will present a survey of contemporary philosophy, with a special focus upon the phenomenological tradition that hinges on the concept of praxis broadly regarded. What is a praxis? How many different species of praxis can be identified and thus distinguished? Can one speak of a normativity immanent to the praxis? On the basis of such broad, and general questions the class intends to explore the many different dimensions of our practical engagement with the world at the intersection of different philosophical traditions ranging from the neo-Idealism of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce (with his distinction between the ethical and the economic form of praxis) to the phenomenology of both E. Husserl (with his different declinations of the notion of attitude) and M. Heidegger (and his claim on the primacy of everyday intelligibility); we will also explore how their insights are further developed by P. Bourdieu (with his notion of habitus and practical logic) and J. Patočka (with the differentiation between three fundamental practical movements of human life). Once a basic understanding of the basic significance and many implications of the praxis have been obtained, the course will open up three further dimensions: that of the political meaning of the idea of praxis (H. Arendt), its role and function in Heidegger’s history of being according to Reiner Schürmann’s anarchic interpretation; finally, G. Agamben’s criticism of the very notion of “action” (hence, of praxis in general) will be discussed. Last update: De Santis Daniele, doc., Dott. Ric. (14.09.2022)
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2. Requirements
Students will be evaluated based upon the following two mandatory parameters:
(1) Participation (which includes, yet is not limited to: doing the assignments, attendance, in-class active participation). If you are absent, please ask some of your classmates for any assignments or key discussion materials missed. (2) In-Class Presentation (dates and modality to be established in due time and discussed with the teachers)
Last update: De Santis Daniele, doc., Dott. Ric. (14.09.2022)
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3. Essential Bibliography
B. Croce, What is Living and What is Dead of the Philosophy of Hegel (New York 1915) B. Croce, Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic (Toronto, London 1913) E. Husserl, First Philosophy, Lectures 1923/24 (Cham 2020) E. Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (Evanston, IL 1970) M. Heidegger, Being and Time (Albany 1996) M. Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism” in: Pathmarks (Cambridge 1998) P. Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice (Cambridge 1990) J. Patočka, “The Natural World” Remeditated Thirty–Three Years Later, in: The Natural World as a PhilosophicalProblem (Evanston 2016) H. Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago 1998) R. Schürmann, Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy (Bloomington 1987) G. Agamben, Potentialities (Stanford 2000) G. Agamben, The Use of the Bodies (Stanford 2016) G. Agamben, Means Without Ends (Minnesota 2000)
4. Suggested Readings
G. E. Primera, The Political Ontology of Giorgio Agamben (London 2019) R. Peters, History as Thought and Action. The Philosophies of Croce, Gentile, de Ruggiero and Collingwood (Exter 2013) Jack D’Amico, Dain A. Trafton, Massimo Verdicchio, The Legacy of Benedetto Croce (Toronto 1999) R. Jenkins, Piere Bourdeau (Routledge 1992) H. Dreyfus, Being-in-the-World, A Commentary on Heidegger's Being in Time, Division I, (Cambridge 1990) M. Okrent, Heidegger’s Pragmatism Understanding, Being, and the Critique of Metaphysics (Ithaca and London, 1988) Last update: De Santis Daniele, doc., Dott. Ric. (14.09.2022)
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