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PHIL 26100 - Themes in Continental Philosophy

Course Credit: 1
(GERS)
THEMES IN CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: This course is an introduction to the major conceptions of self within continental philosophy. After a brief survey of the ideas of self in German idealism, we will read works by Arthur Schopenhauer, Sûren Kierkegaard, and Friedrich Nietzsche. We will then examine the phenomenological approaches to self in the works of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir. We will also consider how these conceptions of self compare to those presented in analytic philosophy and certain non-Western traditions. [AH]