Tentative Schedule – Phenomenology
and Existentialism
Key to Writing
Errors and Abbreviations
T 9/4 Introduction to course
Existentialism
R 9/6 Heidegger, The Concept of Time 1-10
Topic: Anxiety and authenticity
T 9/11 The Concept of Time 11-22
R 9/13 Sartre, “Existentialism and Humanism”
Topic:
What is existentialism? What is the nature of moral responsibility?
T 9/18 Student
presentations on other prominent existentialists Guidelines
Phenomenology
R 9/20 Husserl, “Philosophy as a Rigorous Science” 71-83, 122-129;
Zahavi, Husserl’s Phenomenology 7-13
Topic: Husserl’s critique of naturalism and historicism
T 9/25 Zahavi 13-27
Topic: Intentionality
R 9/27 Zahavi 27-39
Topic: The intuition of essences
T 10/2 Sartre, The Imaginary 179-188
Topic:
Sartre’s version of phenomenology Paper #1 Guidelines
Authenticity
R 10/4 Heidegger, Basic Problems of Phenomenology 170-171, 287-288;
Being and Time 436-439, 448
Topic: Anxiety and Authenticity
T 10/9 Sartre, Being and Nothingness part 1 ch.2, 86-90, 96-105
(Recommended: 105-116)
Topic:
Bad faith
R 10/11 Sartre,
Anti-Semite and Jew 89-109, 136-139
Topic: Authenticity, Paper #1 Due
T 10/16 Sartre, The Age of Reason
370-397 Summaries of AR
Topic: Authenticity in existentialist literature and film
R 10/18 Film: Herzog, My Best Fiend
What is Creativity?
T 10/23 Topic: Creativity and Authentic Action
R 10/25 Cont. Paper #2 Guidelines
Social
Identity and Political Engagement
T 10/30 Heidegger,
“The Self-Assertion of the
Topic: Heidegger’s relation to National Socialism, moral luck
R 11/1 Sartre, Being and Nothingness 301-303, 340-355, 383-387
Topic:
The Gaze, Paper #2 Due
(F 11/2 Withdrawal Deadline)
T 11/6 Beauvoir, After the War 170-175, 198-204; Hard Times 78-86;
Fallaize, The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir 98-101
Topic: The Gaze cont.; Sartre and Beauvoir’s turn toward Marxism in the late 1940’s
R 11/8 Topic: Marxism cont.
T 11/13 Beauvoir, Introduction to The Second Sex
Topic: Gender
R 11/15 Fanon, “The Lived Experience of the Black”
Topic: Race
T 11/20 Wikipedia article on the Algerian War; Beauvoir, Hard Times 87-93, 102-105, 177-183, 191-193, 222-228, 267-268, 320-325, 334-336, 344-346, 364
Film: Pontecorvo, The
Topic: Sartre and
Beauvoir, the anti-colonial movement, and
R 11/22 Thanksgiving
T 11/27 Valls, “Can Terrorism be Justified?”
Topic:
Violence and terrorism Paper #3 Guidelines
R 11/29 Sartre, “Elections: A Trap for
Fools” (Recommended: “The Progressive-Regressive Method” 85-100) Later Sartre Links
Topic: Sartre’s later thought on social identity
History and Volk in
the Later Heidegger
T 12/4 “Memorial Address”; “The Question Concerning Technology” 3-23
Topic:
Technology
Paper #3 Due
R 12/6 QCT 23-35, “Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry”
Topic: Incipient thinking and the preparation for another beginning
T 12/11 “The End of Philosophy and the Beginning of Thinking,” “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”
Topic: The history of being Paper #4 Guidelines
R 12/13 BDT cont., “Poetically Man Dwells”
Topic: The relation of philosophy and poetry
Final Exam T 12/18 12:45 – 2:45 pm