Degree | Type | Year |
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Philosophy | OB | 3 |
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There are no prerequisites.
This course provides an introduction to phenomenology and hermeneutics, two fundamental philosophical currents of the twentieth century whose influence remains significant in twenty-first-century thought.
Main objectives:
Understand the foundations of phenomenology and hermeneutics.
Analyse key philosophical texts and develop critical interpretive skills.
Relate phenomenological and hermeneutic theories to other fields of knowledge.
Foster reflection on human experience and meaning.
1. Introduction
1.1 Contemporary Trends in Philosophy
1.2 Contemporary Theories of Ipseity
2. Phenomenological Approach
2.1 The Self as Lived Experience (Husserl)
2.2 The Self and Corporality (Merleau-Ponty)
2.3 The Question of Otherness (Sartre and Levinas)
2.4 The Hermeneutic Turn of Phenomenology (Heidegger)
3. Hermeneutic Approach
3.1 Care of the Self and Others (Heidegger)
3.2 The Self as Narrative (Ricœur)
3.3 The Self as Text (Gadamer)
3.4 The Hermeneutics of the Subject (Foucault)
4. Current Applications
4.1 Butler: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Performativity
4.2 Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology
4.3 Phenomenology and Enactivism
4.4 Postphenomenology
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures and class discussions | 50 | 2 | 23, 8, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 18, 20, 21, 25 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Text readings | 92.5 | 3.7 | 2, 23, 8, 6, 7, 9, 17, 10, 12, 5, 3, 26, 13, 14, 18, 16, 20, 21, 24, 25 |
The subject combines lectures with seminar sessions and class discussion of the main readings of the course. Students actively participate in the analysis of the texts and in the learning process.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Reading report | 20% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1, 15, 2, 4, 23, 8, 6, 7, 9, 17, 10, 12, 5, 26, 13, 14, 18, 20, 19, 21, 24, 25 |
Written test 1 | 40% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 1, 2, 4, 23, 8, 7, 10, 11, 12, 5, 3, 26, 14, 18, 16, 20, 21, 22, 25 |
Written test 2 | 40% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 2, 23, 8, 7, 10, 12, 5, 26, 13, 14, 18, 16, 20, 21, 25 |
The continuous assessment system consists of:
Two partial exams (80%)
One reading report (20%)
Single assessment
The single assessment will consist of an exam with two parts corresponding to the two blocks (80%) and a written paper of 2000-2500 words (20%) on a topic chosen in agreement with the professor, which must be submitted on the same day as the exam.
Make-up assessment
To participate in the make-up assessment, students must have previously been assessed in a set of activities whose weight corresponds to at least two-thirds of the total grade (CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT) or must have submitted all the scheduled tests (SINGLE ASSESSMENT).
At the time of each assessment activity, the teaching staff will inform students (via Moodle) of the procedure and the date for grade review.
Students will receive the grade “Not assessable” if they have failed to submit more than one-third of the assessment activities.
If a student commits any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade of an assessment event, that assessment will be graded as 0, regardless of any disciplinary process that may be initiated. If multiple irregularities occur in the assessments of the same subject, the final grade for that subject will be 0.
Use of AI
Model 2 - Restricted use: For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed exclusively in support tasks, such as bibliographic or information search, proofreading or translations.Students will have to clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity, as well as the link and all the corresponding prompts. Non-transparency of the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered academic dishonesty and may lead to a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or higher penalties in serious cases.
Additional information regarding assessment:
The Department of Philosophy agreed that the first-semester students would have two periods dedicated to assessment activities and one week during which students could specifically prepare for the exams, in the format that each instructor will specify at the beginning of the course. The dates for the review week and the assessment periods are:
Mandatory readings:
Ahmed, Sara. 2006. Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, objects, others. Durham: Duke University Press.
Butler, Judith. 1997. Excitable Speech. A politics of the performative. New York / London: Routledge.
Foucault, Michel. 2005. La hermenéutica del sujeto (1982). Barcelona: Akal.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. 1977. Verdad y método (1960). Salamanca: Sígueme.
Heidegger, Martin. 2023. Ser y tiempo (1927). Madrid: Trotta.
__. El concepto de tiempo (1924). Herder, Barcelona.
Husserl, Edmund. 1985. Ideas relativas a una fenomenología pura y una filosofía fenomenológica (1913). Madrid,: Alianza editorial.
__. La crisis de las ciencias europeas (1935). Madrid: Crítica
__. Invitación a la fenomenología. Barcelona: Paidós Studio.
__. Lecciones de fenomenología de la conciencia interna del tiempo (1905). Madrid: Trotta.
__. La idea de la fenomenología (1950). Barcelona: Herder.
Ihde, John. 2015. Postfenomenología y Tecnociencia. Barcelona: Plataforma Editorial Sello AG.
Levinas, Emmanuel. 2002. Totalidad e infinito. Ensayo sobre la exterioridad (1961). Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 1993. Fenomenología de la percepción (1945). Barcelona: Planeta de Agostini.
Ricoeur, Paul. 2003. El conflicto de las interpretaciones. Buenos Aires: F.C.E.
__. Sí mismo como otro (1990). Barcelona: Siglo XXI.
__. Tiempo y narración. III. El tiempo narrado (1985). Madrid: Trota.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. 2005. El ser y la nada (1943). Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Additional readings:
García-Baró, Miguel. 2015. Husserl y Gadamer. Fenomenología y hermenéutica. Barcelona: Emse Publishing.
Grondin, Jean. 2008. ¿Qué es la hermenéutica? Barcelona: Herder.
Dilthey, Wilhelm. 200o. «El surgimiento de la hermenéutica» (1900). En Dos escritos sobre hermenéutica. Madrid: Istmo, pp. 21-80.
Moran, Dermot. 2011. Introducción a la fenomenología. Rubí (Barcelona): Anthropos.
Zahavi, Dan. 2003. Husserl's Phenomenology. Standfor: Standfor University Press
Note: A more extensive and detailed bibliography will be presented on the first day of class. Throughout the course sessions, the specific sections of each reading to be studied will be indicated, with the aim of facilitating their understanding and critical analysis.
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Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan/Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan/Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |