Contemporary philosophy

Course: Cultural Studies

Structural unit: Faculty of Philosophy

Title
Contemporary philosophy
Code
ОК 11
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
2 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
1. to understand the specifics and features of the implementation of cultural ideas, images, and meanings, as well as to critically evaluate the possibilities of their interpretation to solve important problems for a society. 2. to analyze textual and visual sources of information about cultural phenomena and processes; to verify information according to professional objectives. 6. to communicate fluently in official and foreign languages orally and in writing to discuss professional issues, presentation of research results and projects. 7. to evaluate historical achievements and the latest achievements in cultural studies. 12. to collect, analyze and evaluate empirical facts and interpret them in according to modern theoretical ideas of the relevant field of cultural studies. 13. to plan and carry out scientific and applied research in the field of cultural studies, to generate and test hypotheses, to collect evidence and argue conclusions.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Before studying this course, students must know the basic principles of historical and philosophical process; principles and established approaches to the periodization of the history of philosophy, the foundations of the paradigmatic approach to the analysis of the phenomena of the history of philosophy. 2. Students must be able to analyze the material, work with texts, have a categorical apparatus of historical and philosophical research; to apply methodological tools of historical and philosophical research, to conclude the source base of research; 3.Students must have basic skills in research and information management; critical attitude and forecasting regarding political, economic, cultural and artistic events and phenomena; use of foreign language professional historical and philosophical information sources.
Course content
Contemporary Studies. Topology of modern philosophy. Philosophy of cinema and cinema, cinema as philosophy. "Hypothesis" of reality in modern philosophy. Modern philosophy in humanistic perspective. Modern philosophy and psychiatry in the discourse of norms and pathology. Postmodern philosophy: before and after the discourse with the prefix -post. Philosophy of media / media sophia; New Media. Dynamics of ANT transformations (actor-network theory)
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Agamben G. Gesture, or the Structure of Art. (Відео). // http://www.egs.edu/faculty/giorgio-agamben/videos/gesture-or-the-structure-of-art/ Sloterdijk P. Rules for the Human Zoo: a response to the Letter on Humanism. – Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. – 2009, volume 27, Р. 12-28. Carpenter, John. «They Live» (1988) // [Електронний ресурс] Режим доступу: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Dupieux, Quentin. Réalité (2014) // [Електронний ресурс] Режим доступу: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392672/?ref_=nv_sr_3 Nolan, Chris. «Doodlebug» (1997) // [Електронний ресурс] Режим доступу: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411302/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Zizek S. Welcome to the desert of the real! – New York, NY, 2002. – 159 с. Žižek, Slavoj. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) // [Електронний ресурс] Режим доступу: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2152198/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, self-study
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Oral presentation at seminars: 12/20 points 2. Participation in discussions at seminars: 6/10 points 3. Self-study - written research work: 18/30 points 4. Exam in writing - 24/40 points The assessment during the academic period (100 points) consists of points obtained for classroom work - 1) oral answers at seminars, 2) supplementation and participation in discussions, 3) self-study(written research work), 4) exam.
Language of instruction
english

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Mykhailo Serhiyovych Kyrychenko
Department of History of Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of History of Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy