| PHIL
201 -- Heidegger's /Being and Time/ Winter 2011 |
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| Instructor:
Clinton Tolley office: HSS 8018 hours: tbd phone: 2-2686 email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
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| Time:
Monday, 4:00-6:50pm Location: Philosophy Department Seminar Room [H&SS, 7077] [map] |
| Martin Heidegger, Being
and Time trs., Macquarrie and Robinson; Harper, 1962/2008 Martin Heidegger, History of the Concept of Time tr., Kisiel; Indiana,1992 {available at the Price Center bookstore} |
| We will read and discuss
Heidegger's challenging yet extremely rewarding masterwork, his 1927 Being
and Time. We will start by putting ourselves in a better
position to understand this text by first reading through
selections from two of Heidegger's key influences, Brentano and
Husserl, and by then working through the first half of a lecture course
on
the concept of time that Heidegger gave in 1925, shortly before
composing Being and Time itself.
Throughout the quarter we will also become familiar with,
and try to develop a critical perspective on, some of the more
influential secondary
literature. Major topics to be addressed include: phenomenology and the proper method of philosophy; the place of intuition, description, and analysis in philosophy; the role of history and tradition in philosophy; the role of the first-person perspective in philosophy; the significance of basic ontological distinctions (e.g, between being (essence), the constitution of being (categoriality), the entities (instances) that 'are' in this way, etc.); the difference between ontic and ontological inquiry; the essential constitution of being a human being; intentionality and the relation between subjects and 'the world'; the distinction between sensibility and understanding; the distinction between theoretical and practical understanding, and between theoretical and practical sensibility; the role that being with others plays in forming what it is to be human; the theory of meaning; the meaning of being; the meaning of being a human being; the relationship between meaningfulness and time, and especially death; authentic vs inauthentic understandings of the meaning of being, being human, and death |
| Two 2-3pp short response
papers on two different week's readings, due Sunday, noon 15-20pp seminar paper, due exam week Attendance |
| {subject to change} Introduction: from psychology to phenomenology Brentano, Psychology and Husserl, Ideas (week 1) [available through WebCT] Heidegger, History of The Concept of Time (week 2 [and throughout]) From phenomenology to the analysis of existence: Being and Time (weeks 3-10) |
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