"Krinò" : "Krinò" Workshop of Thinking as an academic seminar. University of Szeged, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

"KRINÒ"

WORKSHOP OF THINKING

"Krinò" Workshop of Thinking
as an academic seminar.
University of Szeged,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

As a branch of the Independent Cultural Center, which it is, "Krinò" Workshop of Thinking will be provided (as it has already happened) as an academic seminar led by Federico Sollazzo, at the University of Szeged, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept. of Philosophy, in the 2nd semester of the academic year 2018/2019; from Tuesday, 5th February, to Tuesday, 14th May (2019).

Description

“Krinò” Workshop of Thinking is not aimed to deliver information and later on to verify the understanding of the students. Differently, it is aimed to offer stimuli, incentives, prompts, urges for the creation of a personal thought by participants.

Obviously, this does not mean to ignore the work of the Authors, waiting for the inspiration from nowhere. Very differently, this instead means, at least:

A) To take into account anything that can be fertilizing for thinking, from a book to a work of art, to a scene on the street – differently, thinking would be a mere conventional exercise inside a pre-established methodology and narrowed parameters.

B) Taking into account works of Authors, and any other event in the world, not to extract and manage data, but being led from the pleasure we feel when we come into contact with the otherness. In other words: from a scientific, technical, impersonal touch, to a pleasure oriented touch. It implies that at the end we have in our hands not data (if not accidentally and secondarily) but impressions and feelings that inspire our personal thought.

In the light of the above mentioned perspective, in the “Krinò” Workshop of Thinking seminar will be discussed the status of today’s academic philosophy – do scientific productivity, impact factor, academic degrees and titles say anything about the fact that one is a thinker, and so can train others to become the same, or not? – of today’s university – is it, still, able to host inside itself also thinkers, or only scientists? – and of today’s, alleged, high culture – is it not a new form of low culture, consisting in mere data managing?

Main references

• F. Nietzsche, On the Future of our Educational Institutions (1872), in Id., The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Volume 6, O. Levy ed., T.N. Foulis, Edinburgh and London, 1909 (also containing, Homer and Classical Philology).

• F. Nietzsche, David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer and Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, in Id., Untimely Meditations (1873-1876), D. Breazeale ed., Cambridge U.P., 1997 (also containing, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life and Schopenhauer as Educator).

Please note: The above mentioned texts, as well as other possible sources, will be provided by the lecturer.

Additional information

English knowledge required.

Where and when: classroom "Szeminarium 9.", IV floor of the (grey) building of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Petőfi Sándor sgt. 30-34; Tuesday, 6.15-7.45 p.m.

Lecturer: Dr. Federico Sollazzo (Ph.D.).

Each session of the “Krinò” Workshop of Thinking seminar is introduced by the lecturer in about 1 hour, leaving the final half an hour to the free discussion of participants.

In the final meeting will be arranged a kind of small conference, where participants have to provide their personal thoughts arising from the topics approached during the semester.

The final grade will depend from the active participation during the semester and from the talk in the final small conference.

Please note: no other dates will be allowed for the talk beyond the last day of the course.

All interested people are welcome, students, also those needing a code not given to the seminar that can be attributed in progress and also those not officially attending the seminar, as well as anyone, though not a student, interested in these topics.

Further info: check on the Neptun system, on the CooSpace, on the "Krinò"'s FB page or e-mail to p.sollazzo@inwind.it

Federico Sollazzo