| Dozent/in |
Dr. Federica Gregoratto |
| Veranstaltungsart |
Hauptseminar |
| Code |
HS211430 |
| Semester |
Herbstsemester 2021 |
| Durchführender Fachbereich |
Philosophie |
| Studienstufe |
Bachelor
Master |
| Termin/e |
Do, 23.09.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B51
Do, 30.09.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B51
Do, 07.10.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B55
Do, 14.10.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B55
Do, 21.10.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B55
Do, 28.10.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B55
Do, 04.11.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B51
Do, 11.11.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B51
Do, 18.11.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 3.B58
Do, 25.11.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, 4.B51
Do, 02.12.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, ZOOM
Do, 09.12.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, ZOOM
Do, 16.12.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, ZOOM
Do, 23.12.2021, 14:15 - 16:00 Uhr, ZOOM |
| Umfang |
2 Semesterwochenstunden |
| Turnus |
Wöchentlich |
| Inhalt |
Philosophers have fought over the meaning, value and consequences of love, friendship and sexual desire from philosophy’s very beginning. The seminar wants to address some of the issues, aporias, and paradoxes that have been bothered and fascinated human beings for a very long time (what is the difference between love and friendship? Is sex essential for love? Do we lose or find ourselves in love relationships? Are we free or unfree when we fall in love, or in friendship? How and to which extend can love and friendship be political, or prepare us for political engagement?). What is more, it explores the most salient love-related troubles affecting our present-day (Western) intimate, interpersonal lives (Is it permissible or desirable to romantically love more than one person at the same time? Are romantic relationships essential for a good life, and why is friendship considered as less valuable and less normatively binding than romantic and family love? Has the willingness to commit to long-term, serious relationships shrunken, and, if yes, is it a good or a bad thing? Has the digitalization of love and sex introduced pernicious economic rationality into the remotest interstices of our intimate lives? Are certain categories of people and bodies considered less lovable and desirable than others?) Note that some of these questions, including the more ‘universal’ and ‘classic’ ones, become particularly explosive and controversial in the time of Covid-19. The course is animated by the belief that such troubles are good news. They do not have clear-cut and simple answers, and provide, generation after generation, material for countless works of art, movies and songs. The aim of the course is to find out and discuss our own answers, trying to reflect and shed light on crucial aspects of our individual and collective self-conceptions and practices, and even to revise some of them for the better.
The seminar is divided in three parts. In the first part, we read and interpret some of the seminal texts on love, sex and friendship written by ancient (e.g. Sappho, Plato, Aristotle) and modern (e.g. Shakespeare, Montaigne, Mary and Percy B. Shelley) authors. In the second part, we deal with some contemporary important accounts (e.g. Simone de Beauvoir, bell hooks, Harry Frankfurt). In the third part, we address some specific constellations of problem (polyamory, digitalization of love and sex, romantic neuroenhancement). Throughout the whole course, we also attempt to philosophically approach and discuss some cultural products (excerpts from TV shows, movies, songs). |
| Voraussetzungen |
Besuch von mindestens einem Proseminar in Philosophie mit abgeschlossener (benoteter) schriftlicher Seminararbeit. (Ausnahme: Freie Studienleistungen) |
| Sprache |
Englisch |
| Abschlussform / Credits |
Aktive Teilnahme / 4 Credits (für alle Module ohne anderslautende Angabe)
Benotete schriftliche Arbeit / 6 Credits (für Modul Philosophie)
Bestätigte Teilnahme mit Zusatzleistung / 3 Credits (für Modul Philosophie)
Benotete schriftliche Arbeit / 6 Credits (für Modul Philosophie)
Bestätigte Teilnahme mit Zusatzleistung / 3 Credits (für Modul Philosophie)
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| Hörer-/innen |
Ja |
| Kontakt |
federica.gregoratto@doz.unilu.ch
federica.gregoratto@unisg.ch |
| Literatur |
Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009, excerpt.
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex (1949), excerpt. Brian D. Earp and Julian Savulescu: Love Drugs. The Chemical Future of Relationships. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2020.
Harry Frankfurt: The Reasons of Love. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2004, excerpt. Mitchell Hobbs, Stephen Owen, and Livia Gerber: “Liquid Love? Dating Apps, Sex, Relationships and the Digital Transformation of Intimacy”. Journal of Sociology, 53:2, 2017, 271–284.
bell hooks: All About Love. New Visions. New York: Harper Collins 2000, excerpt.
Carrie S.I. Jenkins: “Modal Monogamy”. Ergo, 2:8, 2015, 175–194.
Paul A. Kottman: Love as Human Freedom. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2017 (Chapter on Romeo and Juliet)
Michel de Montaigne: “On Friendship”. In Essays (1580). London: Penguin Books 1993.
Sappho, Fragment 31, in Anne Carson (ed.) If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho. New York: Vintage Books.
Mary W. Shelley: The Last Man (1826), Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics 1994, excerpt.
Percy B. Shelley: “Epipsychidion” (1821).
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