Teaching Workshop: Philosophy Workshop in the Prison of Opera 2

The workshop aims to offer an introduction to the different forms that the metaphor of the world as a book has taken in the history of Western thought, with a focus on developments within philosophical and scientific culture. The topic, which has been the subject of a painstaking study by Hans Blumemberg, will also be treated from different disciplinary perspectives.

The workshop aims to develop the following skills:

Critical thinking skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will display a sufficiently independent critical approach in selecting and interpreting the notions that are most relevant their area of study and to the broader socio-cultural context in which they operate

Communication skills:
By the end of the workshop:
- students will be able to effectively communicate the acquired knowledge and disseminate it to the general public;
- student will have developed basic IT skills concerning knowledge preservation and transfer.

Learning skills:
By the end of the workshop, students will have developed the learning skills required to continue their studies in keeping with their own research interests. In order to meet this objective, students will also develop relevant skills in the independent interpretation of sources and in the use of basic IT tool for bibliographic research.