Syllabus Information

5.1. Methodological overview

See "Learning activities " and "Program".

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

1. The modern human condition

            Reading: Pico della Mirandola, Discourse on human dignity

2. The modern political condition

            Reading: La Boétie, Traité de la servitude volontaire

3. Critique

            Reading: “Critique”, Encyclopédie. + Kant: Prólogo a la Critique of judgement

            Koselleck, R., Crisis and critique; Foucault, What is critique

4. Entlightenment

            Reading: Kant, What is Entlightenment. + Jonathan Israel: Radical Entlightenment

5. Pedagogy and education in the XVIIIth century

            Reading: Rousseau, Discourse on art and sciences

            Rancière, Le maître ignorant y Ph.Meirieu, Frankenstein éducateur

6. Political foundation

            Reading: Rousseau, Discourse on social inequality and Social contract

7. History and philosophy of history

            Reading: Kant, Ideas for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view

8. Revolution

            Reading: Fragments by Kant and Hegel on French Revolution

            Georg Büchner, Danton's death

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.