Università Roma Tre

Starting from the role of emotions in the orientation in the world and in the education process, as thought by Martha C. Nussbaum, the programme wants to examine the laycal and social meaning the abovesaid assigns to compassion. To that concept is contrasted the critical interpretation of Hannah Arendt (who considers Rousseau's compassion as a prereflessive and presocial feeling proper of the «humanity in dark times», to be replaced by the political category of friendship as conceived by Lessing). Following the contemporary interpretation of french and german enlightment, the course will examine Derrida's concept of lie, showing its coincidences with Rousseau's thought.

Hannah Arendt, On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication Paperback –
Hannah Arendt, On Humanity in the darks Times, Paperback
Martha C. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, Cambridge University Press
Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship Paperback