Università Roma Tre

The course intends to present some central aspects of the 19th and 20th century debate on the philosophies of habit with a particular focus on the French debate between philosophy, psychology and literature through the analysis of the thought of Ravaisson and Proust.
The course is divided into a brief general overview of the history of the concept of habit, a focus on 19th- and 20th-century theories of habit, with specific insights into the theories of Ravaisson and Proust, and is completed by a survey of the main developments in the philosophical investigation of habit in contemporary philosophy.

For Erasmus Students:
Clare Carlisle, On Habit, London, Routledge, 2014
A. Elsner, T. Stern (eds. by), The Proustian Mind . London, Routledge, 2023 (Only: Chapters 9-10-11)
Mark Sinclair, Being Inclined, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019