Philosophy and Cultural Space

Beyond archaeology, the modern cultural strata offer a clear epistemological exemplification for the study of the philosophy of cultural space. The students will have the opportunity in the courses and in visiting Athens to acknowledge the plural significations of spaces. Thus, the imaginative constitution and institution of spaces will be analysed together with the ideas of power, glory, decline, revival, reinforcement that will be central to the argument of the course. The students will have subsequently the opportunity to further analyse and examine the notion of cultural space in their own studies since they are at the stage of forming an academic profile and a research programme.

Main topics addressed

• Cultural topography
• Modernity
• Contemporaneity
• Spatial discourses
• Cognitive formations
• Architectonics of reason
• Epistemology of everyday life
• Mythology of space

Learning outcomes

• Identify the basic principles of cultural space on the basis and the methodology of its philosophical study
• Define the structures of cultural space in a way that, through the theoretical approach, will be able to spot the real and imaginary aspects that underscore the cognitive changes in the relevant area of study
• Determine the epistemological traditions that are archetypal for the relevant study in order to proceed to comparisons and further clarifications both on methodology and content
• Associate the sciences and theories surrounding cultural space in order to bring the study within a broader epistemological field
• Identify, measure, and relativize the number of epistemologies that constitute a cultural space
• Associate philosophical anthropologies to ethics in an enlarged cultural perspective
• Compare the methodological issues in the use of new technologies in the field of Cultural Space Studies and evaluate the element of technological change in the archetypal cultural areas
• Present the critique of media and institutions on the level of the philosophy of cultural space