| PHIL 181 --
Existentialism Fall 2015 |
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| Professor:
Clinton Tolley office: HSS 8018 hours: tbd email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
Teaching Assistant:
tbd office: hours: tbd email: tbd |
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| Time:
Tu/Th 12:30-1:50pm Location: Warren Lecture Hall (WLH) 2209 [map] |
| {required textbooks: tba} {a reader will also be made available on the course's TED page} |
| This course will serve as
an introduction to the basic themes and texts of
existentialism as a philosophical movement, the core of
which emerged and developed from roughly 1850-1960.
We will discuss topics such as the distinction between
essence and existence; the nature of human being, human
existence, and human action; the relation between reason,
existence, and freedom; the idea of 'the death of God';
the meaning of life; the absurd; being with others, being
an other to one's own self. We will read a variety
of authors, most likely including: Blaise Pascal, Soren
Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone De Beauvoir, Hannah
Arendt, Marjorie Grene, Frantz Fanon, Iris Murdoch.
Some of the readings will most likely be fiction (novels,
plays, poetry). Throughout the term we will also
talk about how these themes show up in art from the
period. |
| {tentative} * weekly reading/lecture questionnaires * weekly discussion posts * final paper * attendance * participation |
| {tbd} |
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online
encyclopedia entries (Stanford Enc unless otherwise
noted)
existentialism Blaise Pascal Soren Kierkegaard Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger Jean-Paul Sartre Albert Camus Simone de Beauvoir Frantz Fanon (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Hannah Arendt |