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Academic Year/course: 2017/18

269 - Degree in Philosophy

25504 - Philosophy of Culture


Syllabus Information

Academic Year:
2017/18
Subject:
25504 - Philosophy of Culture
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
269 - Degree in Philosophy
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
269 - Second semester
587 - First semester
Subject Type:
Basic Education
Module:
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5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities " and "Syllabus".

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.2. Learning tasks

  • Theoretical lectures.
  • Practical lectures.
  • Individual work.
  • Personal study.
  • Assessment activities.

5.3. Syllabus

0. The Myth of Culture: Genealogy and Typology of a Concept.

 

1. Savages and Civilsed: a Defintion of Society

1.1. Compilating the Knowledge of the World: from the Cabinet of Curiosities to the Encyclopédie.

1.2 The "State of Nature": the Imaginary Land of Amoral and Unproductive Men.

1.4. The Discussion about the Origin of Language: Codillac, Rousseau and the case of Victor L'Averiron.

 

2. The sons of Civilization: Culture in History.
2.1. J. G. Herder and the Romantic Era: the Definition of an Objective Culture.
2.2. Spencer and Darwin: Species and Societies Over Time.
2.3. Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis culture.

 

3. The Discontent in Western Culture: the pursuit of difference.
3.1. First approaches to anthropological science.
3.3. Claude Levi-Strauss: The Structures of Kinship and the Savage Mind.
3.4. Derrida and Proper Noun: poststructuralist critique of the concept of culture.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)

 

More information will be provided on the first day of class.

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

BIBLIOGRAFÍA BÁSICA:

 

 

BITTERLI, Urs, Los “salvajes” y los “civilizados”. El encuentro de Europa y Ultramar, México DF: FCE, 1981.

BUENO, Gustavo, El mito de la cultura, Barcelona: Editorial prensa ibérica, 1996.

CASIRER, Ernst, Filosofía de la ilustración, México: FCE, 1997.

DERRIDA, Jaques, De la gramatología, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 1971.

FREUD, Sigmund, El malestar en la cultura, Madrid: Alianza, 2015.

HARRIS, Marvin, El desarrollo de la teoría antropológica. Una historia de las teorías de la cultura, Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1982.

HERDER, Johann Gottfried Herder, Obra selecta (Prólogo y traducción de Pedro Ribas), Madrid: Alfaguara, 1982.

HODGEN, Margaret T., Early Antrhopology in the Sixteenth an Seventeenth Centuries, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964.

KAHN, J. S., El concepto de cultura: textos fundamentales, Barcelona: Anagrama, 1975.

LEVI-STRAUS, Claude, Las estructuras elementales de parentesco, Barcelona: Paidós, 1991.

Tristes trópicos, Madrid: Austral, 2012.

El pensamiento salvaje, México D.F.: FCE, 1964.

LLINARES, Joan B., Nicolás Sánchez Durá (ed.)., Ensayos de Filosofía de la cultura, Madrid: Biblioteca nueva, 2002.

MERCIER, Paul, Historia de la antropología, Barcelona: Península, 1969.

PIMENTEL, Juan, El rinoceronte y el megaterio, Madrid: Abada, 2010.

RICOEUR, Paul, Freud: una interpretación de la cultura, México D.F: S. XXI, 1970.

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jaques, Discurso sobre el origen y los fundamentos de la desigualdad entre los hombres, Madrid: Técnos, 2005.

Ensayo sobre el origen de las lenguas, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1984