Università Roma Tre

THE COURSE INTENDS TO TRACE A HISTORICAL AND THEMATIC PATH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF INTERIORITY FROM MODERNITY TO THE PRESENT DAY, PAYING PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE WAYS IN WHICH THE PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING OF SUBJECTIVITY HAS BEEN DECLINED OVER TIME. THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ILLUSTRATED IN STAGES, WITHOUT ANY CLAIM TO EXHAUSTIVENESS, FOCUSING ON A SERIES OF "CASE STUDIES". ON THE HISTORICAL LEVEL, IN ADDITION TO A NECESSARY PREMISE AIMED AT IDENTIFYING IN THE GREEK AND CHRISTIAN THOUGHT OF ANTIQUITY SOME BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE NOTION OF INTERIORITY, PARTICULAR ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO THOSE THINKERS WHO FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ONWARDS, ON THE ONE HAND HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE REFLECTION ON INTERIORITY AND ON THE OTHER HAVE PRACTICED A PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING 'FRONTIER', STARTING FROM MONTAIGNE. THEMATICALLY, THE ANALYSIS OF INTERIORITY IS INTERTWINED WITH THE THEME OF THE SUBSTANTIALIZATION OF THE EGO (CARTESIO), WITH THAT OF THE LABILITY OF THE EGO AND PERSONAL IDENTITY (LOCKE AND HUME), WITH THAT OF AUTHENTICITY AND TRANSPARENCY (ROUSSEAU) AND WITH THAT OF THE UNITY AND MULTIPLICITY OF THE EGO (FRENCH POSITIVIST PSYCHOLOGY, NIETZSCHE). ON THE LEVEL OF WRITING, ATTENTION WILL BE PAID TO THOSE AUTHORS WHO ENCROACH ON THE LITERARY FIELD OR MOVE FROM IT TO THE FIELD OF PHILOSOPHY IN ORDER TO EXPRESS MORE EFFECTIVELY THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT (IN ADDITION TO THE ALREADY MENTIONED MONTAGUE AND ROUSSEAU: MAINE DE BIRAN, PESSOA, PROUST).

1) MARCO PIAZZA, IL FANTASMA DELL’INTERIORITÀ. BREVE STORIA DI UN CONCETTO CONTROVERSO, MILANO, MIMESIS, 2012.

2) UN TESTO A SCELTA TRA:

A) MARCO PIAZZA, ALLE FRONTIERE TRA FILOSOFIA E LETTERATURA, MILANO, GUERINI E ASSOCIATI, 2003;

B) PAOLO D'ANGELO (A CURA DI), FORME LETTERARIE DELLA FILOSOFIA, ROMA, CAROCCI, 2012

3) UN CLASSICO A SCELTA TRA:

• AGOSTINO, LE CONFESSIONI (LIMITATAMENTE AI LIBRI I, II, III, X, XI). EDIZIONE CONSIGLIATA: RIZZOLI (CLASSICI BUR).
• MONTAIGNE, SAGGI (LIMITATAMENTE AL CAPITOLO XXXIX DEL I LIBRO, AL CAPITOLO II DEL III LIBRO E AL CAPITOLO X DEL III LIBRO). EDIZIONE CONSIGLIATA: ADELPHI.
• R. DESCARTES, DISCORSO SUL METODO (TESTO INTEGRALE). EDIZIONE CONSIGLIATA: RIZZOLI (CLASSICI BUR).
• J.-J. ROUSSEAU, CONFESSIONI (LIMITATAMENTE AI LIBRI I, II, XII). EDIZIONE CONSIGLIATA: RIZZOLI (CLASSICI BUR).
• J.-J. ROUSSEAU, LE FANTASTICHERIE DEL PASSEGGIATORE SOLITARIO (TESTO INTEGRALE). EDIZIONE CONSIGLIATA: RIZZOLI (CLASSICI BUR).

N.B.: DURANTE IL CORSO SARANNO MESSI A DISPOSIZIONE MATERIALI DI LETTURA NELLA BACHECA ELETTRONICA DEL DOCENTE (SOTTO FORMA DI LINK O DI FILES DIRETTAMENTE SCARICABILI).