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This course aims to provide a solid and comprehensive grounding in modern philosophy focusing on the main issues and theories of late Renaissance philosophy, modern Rationalism and Empiricism, philosophies of the Enlightenment, Critical philosophy, modern Idealism, Phenomenology and some questions of analytical philosophy. It offers an introduction to the works of the major figures of this tradition, such as Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Sartre. On this chronological canvas the courses is organized around the shifts between the four main paradigms that have structured the history of modern philosophy : 1. the comprehensive systems of knowledge during the early modern period ; 2. the debates between idealism, rationalism and empiricism ; 3. the crucial emphasis on human understanding and the advent of critical philosophy during the Enlightenment ; 4. the focus on language, its nature and properties, in the first decades of the 20th century. Finally, the course briefly introduces to some of the key themes of late 20th century continental philosophy.
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