Università Roma Tre

The course intends to review the methodological and thematic issues of Phenomenology, one of the main currents of the 20th century philosophy. From the beginning, this broad philosophical movement aims to overcome the schematic oppositions (i.e. between absolutism and relativism or rationalism end empiricism) pursuing a program finalized to reject both the naïve positivism of the late 19th century and the many more or less relativistic-oriented philosophies. This course will analyze the origins of Phenomenology, Husserl’s thought especially, and its historical and philosophical context between late 19th and early 20th century. The course will also extend its analysis to the developments of phenomenology in other cultural contexts, taking in account its original reception in the french culture during post-world war I and post-world war II, especially by Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who founded a specifically French phenomenological tradition which currently exists.