Office Hours: T/Th, 15:15-17:20
Schedule of Readings:
Thursday, Sept. 7 | Introduction to Existentialism
1. Listen to BBC, In our Time, “Existentialism” (podcast). 2. Steven Crowell, “Existentialism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. |
Tuesday,
Sept. 12 |
Read: Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Essay 1.
*If you have not received an email from me, please email me at my email address on the syllabus about the work for this week and for me to send you a link that you will need.* Resources for Nietzsche: 1. BBC, In our Time, “Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality” (podcast). 2. R. Lanier Anderson, “Nietzsche,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. |
Thursday, Sept. 14 | Read: Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, Essay 2. |
Tuesday, Sept. 19 | Read: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Resources for Sartre: 1. BBC In these Times, “Sartre” (podcast) 2. Nigel Warburton, “Student’s Guide to Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism,” Philosophy Now (1996). |
Thursday, Sept. 21 | Read: Heidegger’s “Introductionto Being and Time, sections I and II.
Resources for Heidegger: 1. Françoise Dastur, Heidegger and the Question of Time, pp. 1-16; 53-70. 2. Dorothea Frede, “The Question of Being: Heidegger’s Project,” from Cambridge Companion to Heidegger. 3. I. Thompson, “What is Ontotheology?” 4. Stuart Elden, “Heidegger’s Animals,” Continental Philosophy Review (2006) 39: 273–291. |
Tuesday,
Sept. 26 |
Reading: Heidegger’s Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, chs. 1-2. |
Thursday, Sept. 28 | Read: Heidegger’s Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, sections 8-11, 15. |
Tuesday, Oct. 3 |
Read: Heidegger’s Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, sections 16-17, 19-22.Read: Harvard’s Brief Guide to Writing a Philosophy Paper First Writing Assignment Due (4 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman font): In this paper, you will elucidate, over three pages, the critique either Nietzsche or Heidegger have for the tradition of metaphysics? What is the continuing error of that tradition? Do they have a suggestion for how to overcome this tradition? (15 pts.) |
Thursday, Oct. 5 | Read: Heidegger’s Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, sections 23-28. |
Tuesday,
Oct. 9 |
1. Thanksgiving Break |
Thursday, Oct. 12 | Read: Heidegger’s Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, sections 29-36. |
Tuesday, Oct. 17 | Read: Heidegger’s Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, sections 39-48.
*Professor’s Lectures* (Discussion on D2L) |
Thursday, Oct. 19 | Heidegger’s Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, sections 49-51, 58-63.
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Tuesday, Oct. 24 | Read: Heidegger’s Fundamental Concept of Metaphysics, sections 70-71, 74-76.
LAST DAY TO DROP WITHOUT PREJUDICE: You have at least 20% of your grade completed at this time.
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Thursday, Oct. 26 | Read: Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, Introduction, Part I, Part II, 22-49
Second Writing Assignment Due (4 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman font): In this exegetical paper, you will provide an overview of Heidegger’s three accounts of boredom. Why is his account of boredom important to this ontology? Why is the consideration of the third form of boredom most important of all? (15 pts.) Resources for Arendt:
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Tuesday, Oct. 31 | Read: Arendt, The Human Condition, Part II, 50-end |
Thursday, Nov. 2 |
Read: Arendt, The Human Condition, Part III, 79-100, 126-end; Part V, 175-211.
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Tuesday, Nov. 7 | Read: Arendt, The Human Condition, Part V, 212-end. |
Thursday, Nov. 9 | Read: Arendt, The Human Condition, Part VI, 248-end. |
Tuesday, Nov. 14 | Fanon, selections from Black Skin/White Masks, introduction and chapter 5
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Thursday, Nov. 15 | Fanon, selections from Black Skin/White Masks, Chapters 7 and 8; Alia Al-Saji, “Too Late: Racialized Time and the Closure of the Past” |
Tuesday, Nov. 21 | Camus: Myth of Sisyphus, “An Absurd Reasoning,” first half.
Third Writing Assignment Due (4 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman font): In this exegetical paper, you will provide an overview of Arendt’s meaning of “world alienation.” How does this contrast with Heidegger’s own notion of world as explored in the FCM (10 pts.) |
Thursday, Nov. 23 | Camus: Myth of Sisyphus, “An Absurd Reasoning,” second half.
Resources for Camus: 1. BBC In our Times, “Camus” (podcast). |
Tuesday, Nov. 28 | Go over final paper project. |
Thursday, Nov. 30 | Final Class. |
Take Home Essay Exam Due to Professor’s email at noon, December 6. |