Learning objectives
Knowledge of the history of the concept of culture. <br />
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Ability to analyse culture theories. <br />
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Orientation in intercultural research. <br />
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Knowledge of the aesthetic approach in conceptions of culture. <br />
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Ability to compare theories of culture with multi- and intercultural reality. <br />
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Ability to make reference to research on the intercultural horizon as an indispensable approach to contemporary social sciences. <br />
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Ability to evaluate and design training and relational processes in intercultural contexts.
Prerequisites
Fundamentals of philosophy, social sciences and the humanities. <br />
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Basic knowledge of a foreign language and culture.
Course unit content
<br />History of the concept of culture. Concept of culture in our intercultural age. Theory of culture in the 20th century. <br />
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Intercultural research: interdisciplinary aspects and philosophical focal points. Philosophical projects in the intercultural field. <br />
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Problem of identity. <br />
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Classical contributions to intercultural philosophy (Vico, Herder, Schiller, Goethe). <br />
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The anthropological aspect and aesthetic in cultural conceptions. <br />
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Identity and intercultural communication (“meeting” paradigm, Goethe). <br />
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Culture as a flexible and dynamic complex of living forms directed at human research founded on anthropology and supported by the past. <br />
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The intercultural perspective as an indispensable approach to contemporary social sciences.
Bibliography
Giambattista Vico, Principj di una scienza nuova d?intorno alla comune natura delle nazioni (1744), Rizzoli, Milano 1959. <br />
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Conversazioni di profughi tedeschi (1808), Passigli, Firenze 1981. <br />
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Ernst Bloch, Il4 principio speranza (1959), Garzanti, Milano 1994., dal volume terzo (Identita) chap. 43, 44, 45 and (choose one) chap. 50 (literature), 51 (music), 53 (religion). <br />
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Ram Adhar Mall, Interculturalita. Una nuova prospettiva filosofica (1995), Genova 2002. <br />
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Spazio globale: politica, etica e religione, a cura di G. Cunico e A. Pirni, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia 2005. <br />
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Teaching methods
Classroom lectures and seminar <br />
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Oral or written report <br />
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Oral test
