180059 SE Philosophy in Latin America 3 (Argentinien, Chile,Paraguay) (2017W)

Objectives, content and methods. The objetive of the course is to work out similarities and differences between Latin American and European philosophical thinking. The content includes myth and philosophy in the Cono Sur (Argentina, La-Plata States). The idea-historical effectiveness of the Spanish Krausismo and the interaction of positivism, materialism and social Darwinism. The appropriation and transformation of the European Enlightenment philosophy ( Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel). The Latin American modernism and the European modern age.The relation of philosophy and literature en the Cono Sur. The influence of Martin Heidegger and the Frankfurt School Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin. Philosophy of liberation and theology of liberation. Historical hermeneutics and intercultural thinking.Methods: In the first block of the course specific literature adapted to the seminar is provided to the participantes. The content main focuses and orientations concerning the verbal abstracts and seminar papers are discussed. The content of the course is discussed in detail and concretised on the basis of selected texts of Latin American authors.