History & Texts of Contemporary Philosophy (XIXth century)

Teacher(s)

Leclercq Jean;

Language

French

Prerequisites

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Main themes

The course is intended as an introduction to the study of texts and doctrines of contemporary philosophy (19th century).

It identifies the main aspects of the history of contemporary philosophy, its key trends and prominent thinkers, and will develop students' critical reading of the great works of contemporary philosophy.

The following will be studied: Marxism, positivism, utilitarianism, neo-Kantism, neo-Hegelianism, pragmatism and the philosophy of Nietzsche.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	By the end of the course, students will be familiar with the major movements and significant writers of contemporary philosophy, and will be able to identify its key underlying issues and describe the important ongoing debates. They will be able to comment on, analyse and critique one or more major contemporary philosophy texts and situate them in the overall context of contemporary philosophy (after Hegel).

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Faculty or entity

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