THEORIES OF CULTURE
cod. 1010084

Academic year 2024/25
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Pierfrancesco FIORATO
Academic discipline
Filosofia morale (M-FIL/03)
Field
Discipline filosofiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
30 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Learning objectives

Promote the ability to read and comprehend a philosophical text, knowing how to place it in the context of the history of philosophical thought and how to reconstruct its fundamental lines and argumentative junctures, making use of an adequate vocabulary; educate to a critical and conscious reflection on the issues covered by the course, knowing how to apply them to a reading of some salient aspects of the condition of contemporary man from an interdisciplinary perspective; acquire the faculty to undertake analysis and express autonomous critical judgments.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Günther Anders: On Promethean Shame

Full programme

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Bibliography

GÜNTHER ANDERS, Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen 1: Über die Seele im Zeitalter der zweiten industriellen Revolution, C.H. Beck 1956

Günther Anders, “On Promethean Shame", in: Christopher John Müller, “Prometheanism: Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence”, Rowman & Littlefield, London-New York 2016, pp. 23-95


Babette Babich, Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology. From Phenomenology to Critical Theory, Bloomsbury 2022

Teaching methods

Taught lectures; readings of key texts

Assessment methods and criteria

Final oral examination

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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Contacts

Toll-free number

800 904 084

Student registry office


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T. +39 0521 033707

Quality assurance office

Education manager

Ms. Maria Velardi
T. +39 0521 034254
E. maria.velardi@unipr.it

Course President

Prof. Fabrizio Amerini
E. fabrizio.amerini@unipr.it

Faculty advisors

Prof. Roberto Pinzani
E. roberto.pinzani@unipr.it
Prof. Andrea Sebastiano Staiti
E. andreasebastianostaiti@unipr.it

Careers guidance delegate

Prof. Andrea Bianchi
E. andreabianchi@unipr.it

Tutor Professors

Prof. Fabrizio Amerini
fabrizio.amerini@unipr.it
Prof.ssa Beatrice Centi
beatrice.centi@unipr.it

Prof. Roberto Pinzani
E.roberto.pinzani@unipr.it

Erasmus delegates

Prof. Wolfgang Huemer
E. wolfgang.huemer@unipr.it
Prof. Italo Testa
E. italo.testa@unipr.it

Quality assurance manager

Prof. Pierfrancesco Fiorato
E. pierfrancesco.fiorato@unipr.it

Internships

Prof. Gemmo Iocco
E. gemmo.iocco@unipr.it

Tutor students

Dr. Irene Pisani
E. irene.pisani@studenti.unipr.it
Dr. Chiara Incoronato
E. chiara.incoronato@studenti.unipr.it
Dr. Leonardo Mammi

E. leonardo.mammi@studenti.unipr.it
Dr. Elisa Diambri
E. elisa.diambri@studenti.unipr.it