Universität Wien

180118 SE Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel) (2011W)

Jewish Renaissance Philosophy of Love

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 07.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 14.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 21.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 28.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 04.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 11.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 18.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 25.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 02.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 09.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 16.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 13.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 20.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Freitag 27.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The course seeks to provide a comprehensible exposition of the Dialoghi d'amore (first Published 1535), an influential and widely read text on the Philosophy love Love written by the Portugese-Spanish physician Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel). By means of guided close readings of selected passages of the Dialoghi, the seminar will provide an advanced introduction to the philosophical aspects and problems of this particualr intellectual current, and the concomitant socio-political and intellectual backdrop. The seminar will provide an outline of some pre-modern conceptualizations of new epistemologies that were going in tandem with a re-assessment of the human emotional life. The focus on the changing intellectual culture of Early modern Italy will also touch the changing conditions of research.

The seminar will be held in English, accompanied by reading material from selected relevant primary sources and secondary literature at the student’s disposal in the library. General introductions to the historical and intellectual backgrounds of the texts under consideration will go along with close readings.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Apart from actively participating in the discussions of selected primary texts, students will be required individually to give a short talk and to write a ten page essay in English. For their research, students will refer to the primary and secondary literature provided for the seminar as well as to other relevant literature; in their essay, they will demonstrate their capacity handle the usual methods of scholarly documentation (footnotes and bibliography).
Please note: in order to obtain a certificate for this seminar it is necessary to give a talk and to write a paper, which should be related to the content of the talk but which will not merely be a summary of the verbal presentation.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Primary Text:
Leone Ebreo, Dialoghi d’amore, ed. Santino Caramella (Bari:
Laterza, 1929).

Leone Ebreo, Dialogues of Love. Translated by Cosmos Damian
Bacich and Rosella Pescatori. The Lorenzo da Ponte Library
Toronto 2009

Introductory secondary literature
Theodore A. Perry, Erotic Spirituality (Alabama: University of
Alabama Press,
1980)

Aaron W. Hughes, Transforming the Maimonidean
Imagination: Aesthetics in the Renaissance Thought of Judah
Abravanel, Harvard Theological Review 97 (2004): 461484.

Sergius Kodera. Disreputable Bodies: Magic, Medicine, and Gender in Renaissance Natural Philosophy. Toronto, Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2010 Chapters 6 and 7.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

MA M 6, MA M 4, § 4.2.4

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:36