Topics in Current Philosphy

(3-4 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

To make the student reflect about contemporary problems that are causing the academic sphere to redefine the contents of disciplines such as Philosophy, Anthropology, and Sociology. We will directly tackle readings grouped on these central themes, "cultural studies," "globalization," "postcolonialism," and "Latin American thought." After critically and purposefully reading the texts most representative of the questions presented in these topics, the student, using academic expertise and knowledge gained both in this class and prior experience, will be ask to take and argumentatively defend a position. CD description 202410: This course examines the concept of evil through the lens of contemporary culture. Contemporary cases based on film, TV series, novels, and political events will be related to modernity's search to reconcile reason with nature and to make sense of all the evil in the world, even when faced with the most atrocious and horrifying events of the 20th and 21st centuries.