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Veranstaltungen von Dr. Chiara Stefanoni


Lehrveranstaltungen

Political Philosophy (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Chiara Stefanoni

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 11.319 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This seminar introduces students to key concepts and debates within political philosophy, in particular in the tradition of modern and contemporary continental philosophy. Following both a chronological and thematic path, students will critically engage with modern and contemporary classical works of political philosophy, such as Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière, Judith Butler, and authors in the tradition of the so-called Marxist "West German Derivation Debate". Having in mind a critique of liberalism, the texts will be analyzed along three thematic lines: the state, power and resistance with the final aim of defining the notion of "freedom", "politics" and "the political", in particular in relation with "the economic", and "the private", consequently a confrontation with specific dynamics and separations of the capitalist society will be undertaken.

Posthumanist Political Ecologies: Promises and Problems (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Chiara Stefanoni

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 6.320 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The current climate catastrophe has intensified that process of challenging key concepts of Western modernity that began around the 1960s-70s. Ideas such as the nature/culture dualism or the human-nonhuman boundary are deeply rethought and new horizons, such as the question of power, justice or the relationship between capitalism and the environment, are introduced. Crucial in this rethinking (and from the very beginning foundational to ecology) is the category of relationality. Around this category, even the most recent approaches in the environmental humanities play out, so much so as to name a real relational switch. This seminar aims to introduce and analyze those recent approaches, through three moves: 1) providing a systematization of them under the label of posthuman political ecology 2) identifying crucial thematic cores and key lines of argument through specific examples (in particular taking into consideration representative texts from: New Materialism, Animal Studies, Actor-Network Theory, etc. ) 3) Sifting through potentialities and critical points both in terms of theory and political/activist practice. In particular, we will ask: what are the promises and problems of the new relational turn? What is its genealogy? what are its ontological assumptions? what are the ethical and political implications, for humans, animals and environments?

On Smell: Philosophical Perspectives and More (FSL) (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Chiara Stefanoni

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 12.101 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Western culture and philosophy are deeply imbued with what might be called the “primacy of vision.” Light, seeing, and enlightenment as metaphors for truth and knowledge; sight as a noble and privileged sense of morality. And also, the relationship between vision and power. What would it be like if we placed not sight but smell at the center? What conceptions of knowledge, reality, power and the human might we have? Of the five senses, smell has always represented a real conundrum, a secret to be deciphered and at the same time it has been deemed the most useless of the senses, a sense without a future in a context - like the current one - dominated by visual and digital culture. The seminar will outline a - necessarily partial - interdisciplinary and historical path (between philosophy, science, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis) by which to try to imagine an answer to these questions. That path will have two fundamental thematic cores: the power (and politics) of smell and the mobilization of smell in tracing the human/animal distinction.