16054
Seminar
Philosophy of depression
Federica Gregoratto
Kommentar
Depression is a painful existential situation that seems to be quite widespread in our contemporary capitalist, ultra-individualistic societies. Recent and current interrelated crises, as for example the financial crisis, the climate crisis and the threat of a global war, seem to have exacerbated the phenomenon.
But what does it mean exactly to be depressed, or to live with depression? How could we better conceive of it: as mental and bodily disorder, condition, disposition, mode of experience, habit, …? What kind of relations – to oneself, to fellow human beings, and to the world – does depression foster and is fed by? If one agrees to consider it as a pathology, is it just an individual or also a social, collective pathology? What does constitute its ‘pathological’ (i.e. ‘wrong’) character? Does depression also entail ‘positive’ aspects?
This course follows various paths for developing a critical philosophy of depression, an undertaking that finds itself, in the current philosophical landscape, at its outset. Note that the preposition “of” has a double meaning: on the one hand, we will study and articulate philosophical, conceptual and also nonconceptual tools for understanding what depression is; on the other hand, we will explore the cognitive (and affective) resources that the depressive experience disclose and unleash, what their epistemological, ethical and political values can be.
The seminar aims at addressing and discussing the topic by drawing upon a vast range of theoretical and literary resources, from psychoanalysis to philosophy, from sociology to literature.
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14 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mi, 17.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 24.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 08.05.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 15.05.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 22.05.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 29.05.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 05.06.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 12.06.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 19.06.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 26.06.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 03.07.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 10.07.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 17.07.2024 14:00 - 16:00
Mi, 24.07.2024 14:00 - 16:00