Modern philosophy

Moderna filozofija

Course credits:

6.00 ECTS / 60 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 30 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

izr. prof. dr. Mirt Komel

Type:

Required

Language:

Slovenian

Semester:

Second semester

Study degree

1. level

Course execution:

• Undergraduate Programme of Cultural studies - Studies of Culture and Creativity

Short content

The course gives an insight into the development of modern philosophy based on its key-concepts as they function in current intelectuall discourses and as they were developed in different historical periods: subject and substance in Descartes and Spinoza (modernity), critique and dialectics in Kant and Hegel (enlightenment), society and individuum in Marx and Nietzsche (romanticism), phenomenon and presence in Husserl and Heidegger (phenomenology), sign and language in Saussure and Jakobson (linguistics), drive and unconscious in Freud and Lacan (psychoanalysis), speach and writing in Derrida and Nancy (deconstructivism), ideology and nothing in Žižek and Dolar (t.psychoanalysis).