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Atividade
| 134491 - Truth, Post-Truth and Construction of Social Reality |
| Período da turma: | 02/06/2025 a 11/06/2025
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| Descrição: | COMPLETE COURSE PROGRAM
Truth, Post-Truth and Construction of Social Reality Ementa do curso The aim of this course is to strengthen students' skills to analyse and critically assess the role of language, soft power, education and cultural empowerment and disempowerment in the contemporary World. Also to acquaint the students with different principles of human relation to reality – the classical theory of truth (the correspondence theory of truth), the philosophical principles of construction of social reality and the contemporary post-truth culture. Justificativa do Curso How do human thoughts and narratives reflect reality, and how has our relation to reality changed within the new forms of culture in the World of media, social media and fake news? What is the relation between nature and culture, or physical reality and social constructs? The course raises these questions and focuses on the analysis of human interaction with reality. In 2016, the Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” to be the word of the year, thus signifying major conceptual shifts in global culture and discourse of truth. The course provides philosophical tools to differentiate between the principles of truth and post-truth, and to analyze and understand complex contemporary relation between individual and reality in terms of power and construction of social reality. How the Education is impacted by these new issues. Objetivo The aim of this course is: - to acquaint the students with different principles of human relation to reality – the classical theory of truth (the correspondence theory of truth), the philosophical principles of construction of social reality and the contemporary post-truth culture; - to strengthen students' skills to analyse and critically assess the role of language, soft power, education and cultural empowerment and disempowerment in the contemporary World. The learning outcomes of the course are students' skills: - to apply philosophical theories for analysing complex, vividly changing social processes; - to identify the complexity and the interconnectedness of various interdisciplinary aspects of the phenomenon of social reality; - to identify socially constructed mediators in human perception of the World; - to recognize the diferences between the classical notion of truth and the notion of post-truth; - to reflect cultural, political, economical processes in the contemporary World and to critically analyse and assess disempowering forms of social reality; - to analyse historical course and shifts in human culture and to differentiate positive and negative consequences of globalization; - to collect and analyse information and to perform systematised generalizations. Metodologia Classes will take place at the Faculty of Education with the support of a projector for presentation of content. Students will be encouraged to participate in dialogic activities in groups with the supervision of teachers. There will be activities to be carried out as study tasks. Students will carry out reflective activities and record in documents. Conteúdos - Shifting conceptions of human relation to reality in the history of philosophy: classical conception of truth (Plato’s allegory of cave and Aristotle’s correspondence theory of truth), phenomenological principles, philosophical hermeneutics (H. G. Gadamer) and the role of ambivalence in postmodern philosophy; - The power of language: words as social constructs (elements of socially constructed reality); - The philosophical principles of construction of social reality, M. McLuhan’s theory of media as the message and J. Baudrillard’s conception of simulacra and hyperreality; - The conception of the post-truth era; - Z. Bauman’s conceptions of adiaphorization, liquid modernity and consumer society; - Hyperglobalist, sceptic and transformationalist views on globalization; conception of glocalization; imperialist, colonialist and neocolonialist principles in human history; conception of alternative globalization; - Principles of social justice, universal justice and eco-justice; - Logical fallacies as means of personal and political manipulation; - Political philosophy theories that analyse relation between an individual and the community/state (Th. Hobbes, J. Locke, J. S. Mill) and political conceptions of human freedom and liberty; conceptions of negative and positive freedom (I. Berlin); - Conception of disciplinary society (M. Foucault); - Critical pedagogy (Paulo Freire) and the concepts of banking model of pedagogy, oppression, dehumanization, humanization and emancipation; - Disempowerment through categorisation and production of stereotypes: ablism, sexism, racism, agism and other strategies of othering; - Paradigm wars and grand narratives, soft power and hybrid wars; “truth” wars. Público alvo School teachers (public and private schools) and higher education teachers and other professionals interested in the topic of Truth, Post-Truth and Construction of Social Reality. Carga horária 60 hours Recursos ● USP Moodle (extension); ● Freely accessible videos, podcasts and reading materials; Avaliação - 50% of the assessment: active participation in the seminar discussions; - 50% of the assessment: a written essay exam. - Referências bibliográficas Required reading: Author Publishing year Title Issue of a periodical or volume of a publication; pages Publishing house or internet site Required reading J. Baudrillard 1994 Simulacra and Simulation University of Michigan Press M. Foucault 1995 Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Vintage Books P. Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed (various publishing companies) S. Fuller 2018 Post-truth: knowledge as a power game Anthem Press L. McIntire 2018 Post-truth MIT Press G. Maddalena, G. Gili 2020 The History and Theory of Post-truth Communication Cham S. Newman, M. Conrad (eds) 2024 Post-truth Populism: A New Political Paradigm Cham S. Stuart 2019 Post-truth, Scepticism & Power Cham Plato 2007 The Republic Penguin Classics Recommended reading Z. Bauman 1998 Globalization: The Human Consequences Columbia University Press Z. Bauman 2003 Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds Polity Z. Bauman 2007 Consuming Life Polity Press D. Block 2019 Post-truth and Political Discourse Cham M. Castells 1999 The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Volume 1 Wiley-Blackwell A. Giddens 2021 Sociology Polity D. Held, A. McGrew, D. Goldblatt, J. Perraton 1999 Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture Stanford University Press Th. Hobbes 2017 Leviathan Penguin Classics J. Locke 1988 Two Treatises on Government Cambridge University Press M. McLuhan 1994 Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man MIT Press M. B. Steger 2020 Globalization: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press D. Wallace-Wells 2020 The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming Tim Duggan Books |
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| Carga Horária: |
60 horas |
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| Tipo: | Obrigatória | ||||
| Vagas oferecidas: | 20 | ||||
| Ministrantes: |
Agnaldo Arroio Julija Tuleikyte |
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