Culture and Ecology

5 ECTS / Semestral / Português

I:

  • Identify the drivers of the worsening environmental crisis;
  • Reflect on the right relationship between human beings and nature;
  • Recognize that the environmental crisis is transversal to all areas of human life;
  • Deepen the requirements of a critical and active ecological awareness personally and socially;
  • Discuss the place of environmental education;
  • To foster an attitude of commitment and ethical-environmental responsibility of planetary scope;
  • Apply ethical, aesthetic and philosophical thinking, generating responses to environmental problems and the ecological crisis.

II:

  • Contextualize the evolution of the presence of landscape in the literary tradition;
  • Identify the active presence of aesthetic-literary codes and of a topic until the Romantic modernity and the present time;
  • Problematize the new critical-literary orientations of landscape valuation and the development of ecocritical perspectives
  • Critically analyze two literary works from different eras, with distinct ecological consciousnesses.

Faculty

Associate Professor
PhD in Humanities - specialising in Theory of Literature from the Portuguese Catholic University in 2003. He is an Associate Professor at the Portuguese…
Associate Professor
PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP). He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social…