PHILOSOPHY
Course Level: Graduate
Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Regularly recurring topics include Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, naturalism, French existentialism, German existentialism, post-existential European philosophy, and analytic philosophy and phenomenology. Meets with PHIL-412. Usually offered alternate falls (odd years).
Course Level: Graduate
Recent and Contemporary Philosophers (3)
Heidegger's Being and Time
After considering some of Edmund Husserl's writings on phenomenology, students in this course work through Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, one of the most important works of twentieth-century philosophy and an extremely difficult text. Meets with PHIL-412 001.
Course Level: Graduate
Recent and Contemporary Philosophers (3)
Derrida and Buddhism
Derridean deconstruction is arguably one of the most influential continental philosophies of the late twentieth century. The class examines major works by Jacques Derrida, compares Derridean deconstruction with Buddhist philosophy, and considers the influence of the deconstructive mode of thinking in our understanding of identity, ethics, and politics. Meets with PHIL-412 002.
Course Level: Graduate
Recent and Contemporary Philosophers (3)
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault's work poses many challenges to other constructions of ethics, subjectivity, and power. This course tracks the evolution of his thinking about these questions and explores some practical and philosophical applications of a practice he recommends, "care of the self." Meets with PHIL-412 001.